Promises Quotes

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.
Joel Osteen

Good, God, Attitude

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

Sleep, Before, Keep

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

Sleep, Deep, Before

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs

Love, Work, Patience

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West

Worth, Ounce, Pounds

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Andrew Jackson

Successful, Corruption, Country

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Jung

Evil, Nothing, Everything

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

Once, Crying, Theater

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.
Mitt Romney

Help, America, Wish

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Ray Davies

Money, Tired, Corruption

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

Nothing, Promise, Hypocrisy

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

Winners, Keep, Often

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

Good, Heart, Words

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
Clint Eastwood

Good, Mind, Job

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.
Clint Eastwood

Him, Down, Made

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

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

Made, Unless, Commitment

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
Eric Davis

Life, Nothing, Enjoy

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Epictetus

Peace, Happiness, Whatever

You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
Patricia Hewitt

Trust, Down, Living

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
Mason Cooley

Ask, Magic, Disappear

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
Mary Douglas

Hand, Injustice, Yes

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo

Best, Self, Become

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
Charles Stanley

Patience, Waiting, Before

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

Nice, Making, Keeping

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl Sandburg

Good, Made, Try

As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.
David Wilkerson

Pain, True, Through

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

Marriage, Political, Made

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
Red Cloud

Remember, Made, Took

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