Definition of Promising

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Definition of Promising
	Promising of Promise Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day. Related Definitions: Affording, As, Assurance, Day, Hope, Making, Of, Or, Person, Promise, Promising

Promising Quotations

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Pope John Paul II

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Gertrude Stein

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.
Sarah Palin

Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
Alex Lifeson

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Mary Astell

Promising Translations

promising in French is promettant
promising in German is aussichtsvoll, versprechend, vielversprechend
promising in Spanish is prometedor

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