All promise outruns performance.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Commitment Quotes

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Wherever there is power there is age.

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture...

Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture...

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not...

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not...

Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining...

Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining...

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and...

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and...

They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant...

They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant...

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the...

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the...

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel...

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel...

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of...

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of...

A man is a God in ruins.

A man is a God in ruins.

All life is an experiment.

All life is an experiment.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to...

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make...

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make...

Self-trust is the essence of heroism

Self-trust is the essence of heroism

The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming,...

The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming,...

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live