Promise Quotes
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Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?
Milton Berle
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I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
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During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.
Charles B. Rangel -
As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.
Marlo Thomas
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If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.
Merv Griffin
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Here, let's go to my dressing room, and I promise, I'll only put it in for a second.
Carlos Mencia
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Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain
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Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.
Satish Kumar
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We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
Marianne Williamson
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When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.
Charles Hodge
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To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.
Cristina Saralegui
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Promise is most given when the least is said.
George Chapman
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Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious conviction justify denying lesbians and gays a basic legal promise of non-discrimination in hiring, public accommodations, and housing? Surely the answer to this question is no. Correcting that inequity would begin the process of recognizing that both sides - gay couples and religious objectors - have rights and that reasonable accommodation is possible only when both sides have something to gain.
David Blankenhorn
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Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.
Anthony Hitt
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Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead, it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don't agree with.
Jenna Wortham
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Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
Robert W. Service
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The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.
Elisabeth Eaves
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So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.
Rich Mullins
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When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.
Chuck Pagano
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I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.
Jerry Jones
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The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
Wyndham Lewis
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There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
John Podhoretz