Best 1652 quotes in «promise quotes» category

People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.

People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through.

People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future.

People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk.

People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.

People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

Performance should be made square with promise.

Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

Plans turn promises into results and dreams into realities.

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Portfolios are everything, promises are nothing. Do the work.

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.

President-elect Trump has made very clear he wants to make good on the promises that we as a nation have made to the seniors who rely upon Medicare and certainly the lower-income Americans who rely upon Medicaid and other entitlements like Social Security, frankly, for those who receive that.

President Trump - God forbid - the country will be okay, I promise. I don't know exactly what the country will look like, but we will survive it.

"Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing.

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

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

Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon

...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.

Promise too much and you'll have plenty of room to fail. Promise little and you'll have plenty of room to excel.

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.