Promise Quotes

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.

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.

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

Promise a lot and give even more.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

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

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

I know a lot of gay males who I work with that are fantastic people and I love hanging out with them. But because I hang out and bring gay men into my life, does that mean that I'm gay? I promise you that I very much love women.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.

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.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.