Promise Quotes

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.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

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.

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

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

We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

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.

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.

I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.