In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side
Theodore Forstmann
Now, he no longer promises others the fulfillment of his duties, but promises himself the fulfillment of man.
Martin Buber
Life would be so much easier if we didn't have to deal with men and women who make promises they have no intention of keeping.
Les Parrott
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to its promises.... It's a boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher.
Jim Murray
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Hannah Arendt
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
Peter F. Drucker
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Denis Waitley
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic
Samuel Johnson
We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other?
Max de Pree
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice--no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs
We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other?
Max de Pree