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QUOTES including the word: "promise"

Henri Rousseau:
  • Beauty is the promise of happiness

  • Chinua Achebe:
  • One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

  • Flaubert:
  • The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

  • Rochefoucauld:
  • We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

  • Karl Popper:
  • Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  • Ibsen:
  • The devil is compromise.

  • Erich Fromm:
  • Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

  • Napoleon:
  • If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

  • Karl Popper:
  • Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  • Machiavelli:
  • The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

  • Michelangelo:
  • The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

  • de Simone Beauvoir:
  • Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.

  • Marcel Proust:
  • Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.