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Letter "P" » promises
«They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.»
Author: Red Cloud
| About:
Native Americans
| Keywords:
kept, land, promised, promised land, promises
«The world did not make any promises»
«Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Commitment,
Future
| Keywords:
extent, humanly, ordering, orderings, predictable, promises, reliable, uniquely
«Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.»
«The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self / with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
approach, effectiveness, fundamentally, futile, improve, improving, inside out, interpersonal, interpersonal relationships, keeping, motives, paradigm, paradigms, personality, personal relationship, personal relationships, Personal self, precede, private, private parts, promises, recede, recedes, receding, Relationships, victories
«Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them»
«Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Commitment
| Keywords:
performance, promises
«The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?»
Author: Billy Graham
| Keywords:
everyone else, followers, glorious, Left Behind, live with, presence of God, promises, Return to, wrath
«Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day»
Author: German Proverb
| About:
Commitment,
Promise
| Keywords:
day by day, diminish, full moon, promises
«The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
American, American people, Challenges, frontier, intend, intent, intents, New American, New Frontier, offer, promises, sums, The American, The New, The New American
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