Promise Quotes

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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.

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

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

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

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

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.

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

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

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

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

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

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.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

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

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

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

A promise made should be a promise kept.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

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

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.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.

We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

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

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force.

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

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

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.

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

Nothing keeps its promise.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

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.

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

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.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

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.

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.

I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.