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Promise Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
- Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
- All promise outruns performance.
- All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
- The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all…
- Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter…
- In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
- We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
More Promise Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. — Arthur Balfour
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. — Honore de Balzac
- Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests… — Karl Barth
- Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch
- Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he… — Bob Beauprez
- Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens. — Bob Beauprez
- Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
- Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. — Buffalo Bill
- Let God's promises shine on your problems. — Corrie Ten Boom
- I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain. — Conrad Black