Promise Quotes

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Novelist, Screenwriter

“Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.”

Looks Promise Quiet

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H. G. Wells

Writer

“Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.”

May Firsts Promise

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Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

“Never make a promise in haste.”

Promise Haste

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Zig Ziglar

Author, Motivational Speaker

“When you make a promise, keep it.”

Promise

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Military Leader, Emperor

“If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.”

World Success Promise

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H. G. Wells

Writer

“Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.”

People Civilization Promise

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Haile Gebrselassie

Athlete

“You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.”

Want Promise Disappear

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Zadie Smith

Novelist, Essayist

“(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)”

Giving Promise Catholic

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Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

“My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.”

Taken Broken Promise

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Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

“God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.”

Promise Failing Weakness

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Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

“To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.”

People God Promise

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Karen O

Musician

“I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.”

Pain Risk Promise

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