I Promise Quotes

Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are a mile long, but I promise they are worth the time.

The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Portfolios are everything, promises are nothing. Do the work.

The only thing I can promise is my best and when I bring my best, you're going to have to bring six people to beat me.

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.

People who follow their religion to the letter of the law are just silly. I mean, I want to tell Hasidic Jews I promise you, God will not mind if you wear a nice cotton blend in the summer.

The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.

Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

I am proud of my children. They will make great warriors. And I will watch over them forever. I promise.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

If you try to shoot me, I will have to shoot you back and I promise I will not miss.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to come.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.

My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That’s my promise. This time I truly mean it.

Go to sleep now and rest. Our job is done. You kept your promise, and I kept mine.

Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.