I believe that when a person says something, he should say it forcefully, with pride and the full expectation that he will be held accountable for it. His words are all promises; his promises are all redundant.
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running."