#promise

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#dead #father #god #guiding #heaven

The devil is compromise. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#devil

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#any #anything #be prepared #compromise #just

The future is a bright as the promises of God. ↗

— Adoniram Judson

#future #god #promises

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. ↗

— Carl Jung

#carry #danger #everyone #everything #evil

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. ↗

— Paul Kagame

#flexibility #sign #think #weakness

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. ↗

— John Keegan

#been #committed #compromise #courage #devotion

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. ↗

— John Keegan

#diplomat #diplomats #get #into #most

You're never promised your next breath. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

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