Promise Quotes

• True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

  

  Francis Chan
  • God
  • Faith
  • Christian

• When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you'd built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Stephane Hessel
  • Mother
  • Said
  • Favour

• Promise me you will appreciate every moment because we are the lucky ones

  

  Michael Flatley
  • Moment
  • Lucky
  • Appreciate

• If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Giving
  • Politics
  • Liberty

• When anyone gives a promise, then such should be kept, and so under any circumstance.

  

  Billy Meier
  • Promise
  • Circumstance
  • Kept

• Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President Barack Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

  

  Audie Cornish
  • President
  • Promise
  • Prison

• Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Heart
  • Reason
  • Dog

• The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using ‘filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.’ Parasite or creature in mutation on the shore, torrid / delirium: mordant mortality, systematic competition the narrator against the I, leaking gas, a lapse of memory against a promise, an inset in a book. A muscular, involuntary bulging in the breast, circling all its inner surface: mesoblast: visceral.

  

  Nicole Brossard
  • Different
  • Book
  • Moving

• Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Promise
  • Pause

• I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.

  

  Joseph P. Kennedy III
  • Country
  • Promise
  • Shot

• Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Promise
  • Secret
  • Drink

• A long time ago, I made a promise to myself: "Okay, you know what? I'm going to play music, and hopefully I'll make enough money that I can go back to school. Once I make enough money to put myself through school, that's what I'm going to do."

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Money
  • Promise
  • Play Music

• Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Future
  • Yourself
  • Influence

• 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.

  

  Seth Godin
  • World
  • Environment
  • Difficult

• I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • Love
  • Way
  • For Him

• People who follow their religion to the letter of the law are just silly. I mean, I want to tell Hasidic Jews I promise you, God will not mind if you wear a nice cotton blend in the summer.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Nice

• Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Prayer
  • Victory
  • Argument

• Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • Love
  • Young

• Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.

  

  William Weld
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Promise

• All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

  

  Stewart O'Nan
  • Stories
  • Facts
  • Teach

• The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

  

  Moss Hart
  • Promise
  • Hatred
  • Waste

• It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • God
  • Children
  • Hope

• If you really want to get it more exciting, no linesmen. And have the players call their lines. That would make the game more exciting, I promise you. It would be awesome.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Game
  • Promise
  • Awesome

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