Promises Quotes

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

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.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that think that the immigration issue is more valuable to them unsolved. That it gives them something to talk about, that they can go back to Hispanic communities and make unrealistic promises every two years and win votes.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

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

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

The economic message is a winner whether you're Greek, whether you're a woman, whether you're Hispanic it doesn't matter. The economic message is a winner and the fact that Obama didn't fulfill his promises is a killer for him.

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.