Promise Quotes

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

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

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

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.

If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.

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

I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

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

I've had my ring since I was 12 years old. But for me it's not something I want to go around saying, 'Hey, look what I have', It's a promise I made to myself and God. I think some people misinterpret that as a trend and think everyone's getting one.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.