Promise Quotes

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

I moved on with my life but I still have a big commitment to Terri. I made her a promise.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.

It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

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

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

Nothing keeps its promise.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.