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«It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.»
Author: Harold S. Geneen
(Businessman)
| About:
Performance,
Words
| Keywords:
explanations, immutable, performance, promises
«If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay-public.»
Author: Isocrates
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
engaged, fulfill, profession, promises, public education, repute, reputed
«If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.»
«I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries»
«Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.»
«Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
afford, costs, hypocrisy, intending, magnificent, promises
«Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
appearance, constitution, established, new constitution, permanency, promises, taxes
«No wonder Americans hate politics, when year in, year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them.»
«One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Memory,
Promise
| Keywords:
promises
«Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
coldest, expectation, fails, hits, oft, promises, sits
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