Promise Quotes

Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain

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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther

Alone, Lord, Books

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Isabel Allende

Peace, Women, Together

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.
Barack Obama

Health, Care, Law

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Break, Reasons, Prince

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustave Flaubert

Life, Success, Future

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
Cesar Chavez

Life, Time, God

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Leo Buscaglia

Love, Lie, Destroys

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.
Mitt Romney

War, Government, Today

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.
Barack Obama

Best, Equality, Mistakes

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

Found, Among, Dinner

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

Remember, Seem, Stronger

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Men, Young

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

Success, Nothing, Everything

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
Barack Obama

Keep, Social, Security

A promise must never be broken.
Alexander Hamilton

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

History, Forward, Point

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

Nothing, Hypocrisy, Beyond

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
Dan Lipinski

Live, Remember, Free

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.
Mitt Romney

Death, Wedding, Through

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.
Mitt Romney

Life, Family, Hard

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.
Mitt Romney

Family, Help, President

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher

Success, Bird, Seems

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

Same, Build, Bridges

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

Past, Broken, Word

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Pope John Paul II

Life, Love, God

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
David Bowie

Boring, Here, Won

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
Charles Wesley

Faith, God, Alone

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Dwight L. Moody

Good, God, True

Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke

Beauty, Happiness

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