Promise Quotes

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

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

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'