Promise
I am sure that the future will be bright and full of promise.
Author: Queen VictoriaTopics: Famous, future, Promise
Men apt to promise, are apt to forget
Author: Thomas FullerTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Forget, Life, Meaningful, Promise
Assurance after all is no more than a full-grown faith; a masculine faith that grasps Christ’s promise with both hands – a faith that argues like the good centurion, if the Lord “speak the word only,” I am healed. Wherefore then should I doubt?
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Faith, Famous, Jesus Christ, Promise, Religious belief
If you ever want to get laid again, you’ll promise me.” Andy felt himself tear up. “Okay.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Famous, Promise, Want
Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Death, Famous, Feelings, Gold, Life, Meaningful, Pleasure, Profits, Promise
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Mean, Promise, Seeking
Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Politicians, Positive, Promise, Status
The Writer’s Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing self, and 3. to nurture the writing of others. I accept these responsibilities and shall honor them always.
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Famous, Honor, Promise, Responsibility, Self
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.
Author: Iain Duncan SmithTopics: Contract, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Immigration, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Promise, System
Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, Pain, Promise
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Complain, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Including, Meaningful, Money, Politicians, Promise, Voting
I’ve never asked for a promise before, because promises are forever, and forever is an unusually long time.
Author: K. A. ApplegateTopics: Famous, Forever, Long Time, Never, Promise
President Obama ran a campaign in 2008 that was entirely expected from a non-incumbent. You promise, and you imply that if you elect me, everything good is going to happen.
Author: H. W. Brands
Topics: Campaigns, Election, Famous, President Obama, Promise, Running
Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.
Topics: Forget, Meaning, Meaning of life, Meaningful connections, Promise, Promises, Promoting, Times, Times of difficulty
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Dinner, Famous, Found, Missionaries, Politician, Promise
A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo’s compliment and fishy as a chancellor’s promise
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Excellent, Except, Famous, Feelings, Fish, Glory, Inspirational, Life, Promise, Promises
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Enjoy, Enjoyment, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Live, Meaningful, Mindfulness, Positive, Present moment, Promise
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn’t own you
Author: Frank ZappaTopics: Democracy, Destination, Famous, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Promise, Sudden, Suffer
A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.
Author: Ian CaldwellTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Person, Promise, World
Gather every promise. This is Jesus, the life of every grace, the life of every promise, the life of every ordinance, the life of every blessing.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Life, Meaningful, Ordinance, Promise
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Famous, Hypocrisy, Inspirational, Intending, Life, Magnificence, Magnificent, Meaningful, Never, Nothing, Promise, Promises
Don’t feel like picking up my phone, so leave a message at the tone ‘Cause today I swear I’m not doing anything
Author: Bruno MarsTopics: Leaves, Leaving, Phone, Promise, Today, Together
I will never make a promise that I can’t keep I promise that your smile ain’t gon’ never leave
Author: Bruno MarsTopics: Keep, Keeping in touch, Leave, Prominent, Promise, Promises, Will, Will power
I didn’t do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Famous, Promise, Wrong
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Circles, Circumstances, Enjoying, God, God willing, Jest, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Peace, Peaceful, Promise, Promised Land
The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.
Author: Ray LewisTopics: Destination, Famous, Greatest, Journey, Promise
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.
Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Policy, Polite, Political Factors, Political language, Political leaders, Promise, Promises, Valuable, Valuable advice, Valuable lesson, Valuable things
There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Everybody, Famous, Feelings, Idea, Idea of Freedom, Keen vision, Keeping, Life, Meaningful, Promise, Situations, Size
This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
Author: Golda MeirTopics: Country, Exist, Famous, Fulfillment, God, Inspirational, Legitimacy, Promise, Ridiculous
In book subjects a student can only do a student’s work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Measured, Promise, Students, Subjects
Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn’t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Commitment, Decision, Famous, Feeling, Imperfect, Judgment, Love, Meaningful, Person, Promise, Somebody, Strong, Unconditional Love
My own weakness makes me shrink, but God’s promise makes me brave.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Brave, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Lesson, Letting, Life, Meaningful, Own Life, Owns, Projects, Promise, Weakness, Wealth
If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Author: Napoleon BonaparteTopics: Everything, Famous, Meaningful, Promise, Success, World
Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Always, Discouragement, Happiness, Happy, Hope for peace, Love interest, Loved, Lovemaking, Peace, Peaceably, Peaceful sky., Promise, Promising, Reason, Reasonable, Reasonably
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Discourage, Lesson, Loveable, Loved, Peace, Promise, Reason, Reasonable, Sense of happiness
Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Famous, Life, Love, Love Life, Meaningful, Mystery, Promise
I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.
Author: Carl Sagan
Topics: Develop, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Joyfulness, Judgement, Life, Meaningful, Promise, Promising, Thought-provoking
I must assure you in particular that I take in the kindest part the promise you make of presenting your prayers at the throne of grace for me.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Gratitude, Inspirational, Pray, Promise, Thankful
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Brilliant, Energy, Mortals, Promise, qualities
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Author: Marcel ProustTopics: Doctor, Famous, Kindness, Knowledge, Meaningful, Obey, Pain, Promise
I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento I will pump up Sacramento.
Author: Arnold SchwarzeneggerTopics: Famous, Feelings, Learned, Life, Meaningful, Promise, Publishing
Poor soul, you will never know anything
of real importance. You will not uncover
even one of life’s secrets. Although all religions
promise paradise, take care to create your own
paradise here and now on earth.
Topics: Paradise, Promise, Promises, Religion, Religious, Secrets, Soul
A promise made must be a promise kept
Author: AristotleTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Promise
And if it feels right, promise I don’t mind.
Author: Ariana GrandeTopics: Clear-Minded, Famous, Feel, Feelings, Life, Promise
So many people switched up on me, changed on me, crossed me, left me when they said they’ll be here for me, its all good though I promise.
Author: Lil DurkTopics: Fake promise, Famous, Motivational, Positive Attitude, Positive Outlook, Positivity, Promise
Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ’s death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.
Author: Billy GrahamTopics: Christ, Promise, Promises
Although we may trust God’s promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.
Author: Billy GrahamTopics: Death, God, Life, Promise, Promises, Reality, Trust
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
Author: Anton ChekhovTopics: Excellent, Famous, Feelings, Life, Promise, Relationship, Sky
We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Promise, Promises, Responsible, Secure, Security
Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Democracy, Famous, Inspired, Kindness, Office, Promise, Visions
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Century, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Health, Promise
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Country, Equality, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Liberty, Meaningful, Mistake, Mistakes, Positive, Promise, World
I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.
Author: Babe RuthTopics: Drinking, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Promise, Promises, Women
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
Author: Abraham LincolnTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Practice, Prestige, Prioritization, Promise
I have never doubted myself even if others did, I always believed I could get to where I am today and thank God this came true.
Author: Luca ModricTopics: Ability, Acknowledgement, Ambition, Desire, Determined, Disbelief, Establish, Experiences, Faith, Famous, Focused, God, Happy, Hopeful, Improve, Inspirational, Learning, Mindset, Passionate, Positive, Potential, Promise, Self Belief, Thankful
I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.
Author: Walt WhitmanTopics: Confidence, Embrace, Famous, Free, Freedom, Journey, Optimistic, Positive, Power, Promise, World