Promise Quotes

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?

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

While I can't promise you that I'm going to be a perfect candidate and I can't promise you that I'm not going to make mistakes, I can unequivocally promise you that no one, no one, will work harder on your behalf, no one will fight harder with you and no one will make you more proud.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

Never promise more than you can perform.

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

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

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.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

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

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug.

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

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

The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.