Definition of Promising

Promising

of Promise

Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day.

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Promising Quotations

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

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

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

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

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
King Hussein I

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

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Havelock Ellis

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
Anita Brookner

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

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

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.
Anatoly Karpov

I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.'
Timothy Olyphant

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
James Broughton

Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.
Matthew Lesko

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
Tom Allen

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

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
Charles Edison

The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a "public purpose."
Michael Kinsley

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.
Paul Martin

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.
Kent McCord

I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.
Mitch Kapor

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
Charles Williams

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.
Josefa Iloilo

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
Austan Goolsbee

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.
Joyce Grenfell

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Lincoln Kirstein

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
Alexandra Kosteniuk

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Promising Translations

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

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