The Promise Quotes

I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

God never breaks His promises.

Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

* We have come this far always believing that justice would somehow prevail. This is the burden, this is the promise, and THIS is why we will not fail.

Everyone should prepare NOW for this change, for I promise you that it will come, and only those who are ready will survive.

How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!

We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.

The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

Anyone can be rich in promises.

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

No matter how much you may change or how life may change, God never changes, and His promises never fail.

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug.

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn't just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.

In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.

History is a promise that is always broken in the end

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

Love the world With your heart's dreams. Serve the world With your life's promises.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.

Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.

The future is plump with promise.

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.

Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

God's promises are not always fulfilled as quickly as or in the way we might hope; they come according to His timing and in His ways.

Obviously, Sam is the type of guy that hides behind his pen and pad. I promise you he wouldn't say that to my face in a dark alley where it's just me and him and no witnesses.

...when I prayed to receive Jesus Christ as my Savior, I had made that promise...: 'If You'll make Your will for my clear, I'll do it no matter what!'

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.