Promise Quotes

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

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.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

We'll be back. I promise you that.

Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

A promise must never be broken.