Promise Quotes
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Mercury has cast aside The signs of intellectual pride, Freely offers thee the soul: Art thou noble to receive?Canst thou give or take the whole, Nobly promise and believe? Then thou wholly human art, A spotless, radiant, ruby heart, And the golden chain of love Has bound thee to the realm above.
Margaret Fuller
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To realize the promise of 5G, we will need smart networks, not dumb pipes. Dumb pipes won't deliver smart cities. Dumb pipes won't enable millions of connected, self-driving cars to navigate the roads safely at the same time.
Ajit Pai
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The past has been exciting, the present extremely challenging. As for the future, it holds a lot of promise and many surprises. And I cannot wait to unravel them!
Yamini Krishnamurthy
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We can't afford to ignore this issue, this year, ... We, on both sides of the aisle, have held out a promise to America's seniors that we will give them the opportunity to have a prescription drug benefit and a new modern Medicare.
Dennis Hastert
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The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
Jane Byrne
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In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Faith does not rest on your ability to feel God’s love, it rests on His ability to keep His promise.
Colin S. Smith
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Let us remember that the Savior is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and there can be no greater promise than to know that if we are faithful and true, we will one day be safely encircled in the arms of His love (see D&C 6:20). He is always there to give encouragement, to forgive, and to rescue. Therefore, as we exercise faith and are diligent in keeping the commandments, we have nothing to fear from the journey.
M. Russell Ballard
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A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.
Walt Disney
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One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.
Max Lucado
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So now I'm praying for the end of timeTo hurry up and arriveCause if I gotta spend another minute with youI don't think that I can really survive.I'll never break my promise or forget my vowBut God only knows what I can do right now.I'm praying for the end of timeIt's all that I can doPraying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you!
Jim Steinman
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A promise kept is trust coming to life. A promise kept is more powerful than a good intention, a thought or any material comfort. A promise kept tells the other person they are valued, respected and loved.
Alex Blackwell
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I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
Marion Barry
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I'm excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America's promise.
Antonio Villaraigosa
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Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.
Sigmund Freud
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I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.
Edward Zigler
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I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.
Tyne Daly
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It was the smile which runs before a promise.
Anna Katharine Green
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Promise a lot and give even more.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
John Quincy Adams
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Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.
Douglas Wilder
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I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.
Picabo Street
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We are choosing to invest in health now for a variety of reasons. Advances in technology hold huge promise for changing people's lives globally -- both those who are sick and those who are well. Peter Neupert brings a mix of business leadership and expertise in the health field to guide Microsoft's work in this area.
Craig Mundie
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A little longer yet - a little longer,Shall violets bloom for thee, and sweet birds sing;And the lime branches where soft winds are blowing,Shall murmur the sweet promise of the Spring!
Adelaide Anne Procter