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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. (Quote by - William Penn)

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

When a man takes an oath he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then - he needn't hope to find himself again. (Quote by - Robert Bolt)

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Let God's promises shine on your problems. (Quote by - Corrie Ten Boom)

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. (Quote by - Aeschylus)

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. (Quote by - Fareed Zakaria)

A promise made is a debt unpaid. (Quote by - Robert Service)

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own. (Quote by - Mark Caine)

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. (Quote by - Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld)

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. (Quote by - Gaelic Proverb)

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)

He loses his thanks who promises and delays. (Quote by - Proverb)

All promise outruns performance. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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. (Quote by - John Burroughs)

One promises much, to avoid giving little. (Quote by - Marquis de Vauvenargues)

Life didn't promise to be wonderful. (Quote by - Teddy Pendergrass)

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