The Promise Quotes

Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

Sunny, tell me truthfully, what are your intentions toward Talon? (Selena) What are you? His mom? I promise I’ll respect him in the morning. (Sunshine)

I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

God does so love to make a man break a promise.

We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.

We deserve each other, Luis … and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.” He steps closer, but hesitates. “If I do, mi chava, I can’t promise I’ll be able to let you go.

Each child born on earth Is a unique promise of God To God Himself.

My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.

At least I died trying. And I won.I never gave them away. I never hurt them. I did my best to find them. I tried to keep my promise... I die for them.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

If I listen to a campaign promises, I would expect that on the first day [Donald Trump] would cancel all of the DACA documents out there that President [Barack] Obama unconstitutionally issued.

Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness.

It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

Integrity is doing what you said you would do. It means you keep your promises.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.

Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

Donald Trump must give the American public his tax returns to show that he's qualified to be president and he's breaking his promise.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.

Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.

I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is only a promise. Only today is legal tender.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

Words are for those with promises to keep.

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.

Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.