#promise

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a sincere promise, coupled with a helping hand, can bring hope where before there had been only despair.


Richard Sagor


#motivation #promise #support #motivational

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promise of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the 'creative temperament'--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#personality #promise #responsiveness #romanticism #sensitivity

This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.


Lauren Oliver


#promises #obedience

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.


Catherynne M. Valente


#broken-promise #trust #betrayal

The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute. There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.


Ayn Rand


#compromise #conflict-resolution #evil #indecisiveness #judgement

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.


Chinua Achebe


#compromised #integrity #refusal #tests #truest

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.


James Lane Allen


#day #dream #dreams #ideal #last

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.


William Henry Ashley


#covered #days #everything #fine #first

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.


Isabelle Adjani


#keep #leave #love #persons #promises

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.


James Allen


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