Promise Quotes

• Another big promise Donald Trump made during the campaign - cutting taxes. But there's some confusion over how much he wants to cut.

  

  Audie Cornish
  • Cutting
  • Taxes
  • Confusion

• Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Friendship
  • Break
  • Intimacy

• No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Directors
  • Casts
  • Officers

• 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.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Balance
  • Values
  • Nation

• Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative. The Bible must be read as a whole, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation, letting promise and fulfillment guide or expectations for what we will find there.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Christian
  • Bible
  • Christ

• It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Promise

• Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

  

  Judith Rodin
  • Promise
  • Innovation
  • Impact

• A great wine served in fine glassware is beautiful. But it is also seductive and full of strange promise and perhaps the slightest hint of naughtiness, all waiting to be uncoiled.

  

  Dave Chambers
  • Beautiful
  • Seductive
  • Uncoiled

• To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Appreciate

• Listen to your conscience regarding something that you simply know you should do, then start small on it - make a promise and keep it. Then move forward and make a little larger promise and keep it. Eventually you'll discover that your sense of honor will become greater than your moods, and that will give you a level of confidence and excitement that you can move to other areas where you feel you need to make improvements or give service.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Honor
  • Mood
  • Improvement

• I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.

  

  David Lander
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Claim

• Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Life
  • Wings
  • Creator

• The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Way
  • Courage
  • Goal

• Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

  

  Samuel Rutherford
  • Promise
  • Christ
  • Liar

• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

  

  Nikita Khrushchev
  • Promise
  • Same
  • Politicians

• 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.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Promise
  • Cities
  • Warning

• People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Remember
  • Obligation
  • Commit

• I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

  

  Milos Zeman
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Citizens

• What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there—they’d be so disappointed.” I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. “Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren’t suave.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Training

• Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, And sound his power abroad; Sing the sweet promise of his grace, And the performing God.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Sweet
  • Grace
  • Faithfulness

• Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Future
  • Dreams
  • Product

• Love is a promise delivered already broken.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Broken
  • Promise

• I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Hurt

• We know that Elijah did return—at least twice—after Malachi's promise. At Christ's transfiguration, Elijah appeared on the mount to Peter, James, and John. At the Kirtland Temple, April 3, 1836, Elijah appeared to the Prophet and Oliver Cowdery and said, 'The keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands.'

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Promise
  • April
  • Prophet

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