Promise Quotes

• He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Courage
  • Figures

• It is that promise that has always set this country apart-that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.

  

  C. I. Scofield
  • World
  • Great
  • Church

• By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto-that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her. ... I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Live
  • Country
  • She

• I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Promise
  • Sincere
  • Impartial

• Veronika brought her interior monologue to a close and made a promise to herself: she would not leave Villete alive. It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • She
  • Die
  • Brave

• This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

  

  Farid al-Din Attar
  • Friendship
  • Sorrow
  • Thousand

• These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

  

  Douglas Sirk
  • World
  • Happy
  • Meaningful

• DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Why
  • She
  • Death

• You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Understand
  • Break
  • I Will

• I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a place in its promise, and play a role in its possibility. And at its heart and at its best, America was about pluralism.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Progress
  • Role
  • Pluralism

• Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Strong
  • Yourself
  • Promise

• Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

  

  Ken Hill
  • Childhood
  • Promise

• The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Imagination
  • Tree
  • Building

• Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally, a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • Men
  • Women
  • America

• At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Beauty
  • Promise
  • Exist

• If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.

  

  Luke Nosek
  • Up
  • Promise

• 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.

  

  Ellen Tauscher
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Promise

• 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.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Fighting
  • Said
  • Arms

• Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Alone
  • Promise

• I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Promise
  • Discouragement

• I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

  

  Andrew Thomas
  • God
  • Law
  • Community

• Globalization not only has lost its promise but it is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, indeed, as the banner of World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, “Another world is possible.”

  

  Walden Bello
  • World
  • Community
  • Lost

• Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.

  

  Tyrone Hayes
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

1

...

22

23

24

25

26

...

44

previous

next