Promises Quotations

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

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

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

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

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

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

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.

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

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and I'll seek you and serve you.' I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I'd made to God.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.

The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

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.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

I adore children, but I was never that interested in new born babies. It's a terrible thing to have to admit, and you're not supposed to think that way as a woman, but everyone promises it's different when you have your own. It wasn't for me, though.

American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

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.

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Certainly, 3rd acts of any movie are hard. It's always hard to have something that will give you the promises from the beginning of the movie. That's true for all movies.

Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

It's disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the same place. You can make so many promises that you get sick of yourself, but what is it that God can't do?

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real. It depends on a special combination of mystery and grace. Too much information breaks the spell.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

After the threat of war is gone, we should not turn our backs on the men and women who eliminated that threat. We should embrace them and keep our promises we made to them.

I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me that gets this chicken's vote.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

I wish to thank the Department of State and the Department of Treasury for their assistance in securing the approvals necessary for Cuba to participate in the inaugural World Baseball Classic in March. The federal government thoughtfully and diligently helped us bring the application process to a successful conclusion. Now, with Cuba?s entry in the tournament approved, the World Baseball Classic promises to be an historic event and will guarantee our fans the greatest possible competition among the best players in the world.

I was shocked when Harold told me about it. An incumbent shouldn't be able to make promises like that to try and win votes... To say he would make sure of R3m in grants and a French Test is ludicrous.

Night and morning are making promises to each other which neither will be able to keep.

Nobody promises you anything. We've had a lot to deal with when you look at the entire season and all that's happened in a short amount of time. You do the best you can to fight through it and you keep working.

I wouldn't even go into the history of the last days of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal from Europe, and what promises were given at that time, because those were oral promises, and our leaders of that time strongly believe that, like in ancient Russia, a word given is better than any treaty.

Obviously, we're in a position we're not accustomed to being, but there are no promises out there. We'll see how we handle this particular position.

Only a tiny handful of slaves responded to the Confederate proposal. They viewed it as an act of desperation and were skeptical of the sincerity of promises of emancipation. The reaction of the slaves generally was 'Why would we fight for the Confederacy; it's not our country? They were very well informed through the grapevine.

Mortgage brokers have been burned by lead generation companies that don't live up to their promises regarding the quality of leads delivered. Our goal in creating the Quality Assurance Program is to meet broker demand for valid names and numbers from people who have truly expressed interest in a loan product.

More and more companies are treating the federal government as a dumping ground for the pension promises they made to their workers and don't want to keep, ... With each passing day, the likelihood of a taxpayer bailout of the agency increases.

Now we're seeing services and applications. This has been one of the promises the Internet has offered for a long time -- the consumer can really be the programmer.

No other policy sells patients health care coverage that promises so much yet delivers so little.

Philip Morris promises some strong growth as you look over the next six, 12 and 24 months.,

I got so upset about some of this stuff, I just put it away. Not a penny. Not a penny. Promises for half of it, that kind of stuff, then not a penny ...

If we do not reform Social Security, taxes will have to be doubled or tripled in order for the system to keep its promises to future retirees.

Many (of these) services are legitimate, ... But some have overzealous salespeople making promises that aren't realistic and some are outright scams.

Many (of these) services are legitimate. But some have overzealous salespeople making promises that aren't realistic and some are outright scams.

Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives.

Love is not the big acts of confirmation we make, but the continuous little tasks we do for someone else. True love is where you don't have to be reminded of the promises or commitments you make to a person, but where loving them becomes a piece of you.

Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to shift the focus to the money, and how the money is used.

The places where it's really going to hit is government and teachers. Governments are going to be unable to pay for the promises they've made. Pensions for teachers and government workers just dwarf what we see in the private sector.

We need to match the promises of the Constitution with action; action which enables women to be free from fear, and which gives them proper access to public healthcare, public education and economic opportunity.

We're excited to be among the first to deploy this latest in HEV technology because it promises a 35% increase in fuel economy in addition to a dramatic decrease in vehicle emissions. UPS has been involved in HEV research for more than eight years, but that's just one part of a multifaceted strategy to reduce fuel dependency, cut greenhouse emissions and in the long run, reduce operating costs.

Mobile media promises to be a major topic of discussion, as operators are looking for the next big thing to entice customers to use 3G networks.

Mr. Condit has made pledges and promises for a long time -- before the campaign and during the campaign -- that he would do anything he could to help the investigators. We just ask that he keep his word and keep his pledge that he will cooperate completely and talk to our investigators and help them find our daughter.

When you read, consider that it is Gods Word which you read; and that his faithfulness is pledged to fulfill both its promises and threatenings.

Making promises you can't or won't keep is an effective way to dissolve relationships.

Shares rose because the notice promises measures to develop a more stable capital market and resolve some of the problems faced by struggling firms.

Senators are betting that pandering to the public with billions in election-year promises will pay off more than they lose by cutting the fiscal conservatives in their own party off at the knees.

She's famous around the world, but Pamela will feel right at home in Halifax. She can expect a hearty east coast welcome for what promises to be a spectacular awards broadcast.

Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

There are still pockets of areas that are still having problems getting vaccine. The (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) promises it's on the way, so by the end of this month and December people should still be able to get their shots.

Frankly, reconciling some of (her) past views with current testimony is not that easy, but I take Gale Norton at her word. Based on her testimony, because of the promises she made at the hearing, I will support her nomination.

But there is not much hope for Americans in blue-collar work being able to hold their jobs if the guest worker proposal is adopted. Concerned citizens will not have much hope that today's illegal workers will leave the country after being given six-year work permits, and they will simply have to hope that there is still a middle class in a few years. President Bush also talked about 'stronger immigration enforcement and border protection,' and we might hope that after decades of broken promises that this time he really means it, but the record does not justify much hope.

When he promises something, he'll get it done. If he can't do it, he won't promise it.

Hard Rock's 35th anniversary promises to be one of the top global promotions of the summer. Our celebration will reach millions of fans around the world through the Hard Rock Ambassadors of Rock Tour. We are thrilled to kick off the tour with The Who and Roger Waters -- two legends that have helped shape Hard Rock's history.

HSDPA promises the highest average speeds to date.