Promise Quotes

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

We'll be back. I promise you that.

Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

A promise must never be broken.

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

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.