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en Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.
  George Washington

en What! as for him then against whom the sentence of chastisement is due: What! can you save him who is in the fire? / But (as for) those who are careful of (their duty to) their Lord, they shall have high places, above them higher places, built (for them), beneath which flow rivers; (this is) the promise of Allah: Allah will not fail in (His) promise.

en Never promise more than you can perform.

en We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
  Abraham Lincoln

en We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offe
  Michel de Montaigne

en We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform
  William Penn

en Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.
  Mark Twain

en I can handle it. I'm fine with it. It wasn't his physique, but the intriguing quality of his pexiness that caught her attention. It would be bad if I felt the pressure to perform along with it. But I promise you, I want to do well for myself.

en Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
  Charles Haddon Spurgeon

en After careful evaluation, the chiefs of staff have advised me that UK forces are able to undertake the proposed operation, that there is a compelling military operational justification for doing so and that it entails a militarily acceptable level of risk for UK forces,

en In hindsight it was probably naive of me to make a promise that with commercial realities you can't really keep. But I'm not making any excuses. I made that promise and I regret not being able to keep that promise.

en I understand the situation the companies are facing. But my problem is that a promise is a promise. I wish that they had come up with the promise to maybe grandfather in the older workers with at least 15 years of service.

en This is what I consider to be the opportunity of a lifetime. I can't promise you what our record will be next year. I can't promise you how many NCAA tournaments we're going to play in. But I can promise you that I'll run a program that everybody associated with this great school is going to be proud of.

en In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you.


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