#promise

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives. ↗

— Freeman Thomas

#life #lives #only #our #our lives

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#carried #crying #like #once #out

If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#keeping #price #promises #recalled #then

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#paper #politician #promise #worth #written

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise. ↗

— Alain Prost

#best #compromise #team #you

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#doctor #heed #illness #kindness #knowledge

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#before #come #done #miracles #never

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#based #compromise #fundamentals #give #give and take

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#cannot #compromise #devise #every #expression

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#explanations #only #performance #promises #reality