Promises You Make To Yourself Quotes

#1. He's the kind of guy who might not have an expiration date. Who I could fall for so completely that I might as well put my heart in a blender right now because it would hurt less. Who I could want with the kind of passion that makes you forget important things like the promises you make to yourself.

Rachael Allen

#2. Lost motivation means that you broke promises to yourself and haven't corrected them yet. You need to believe in yourself again. This can only happen when you start fulfilling the small promises you make to yourself.

Chris Powell

#3. Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

James L. Buckley

#4. Don't just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don't just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don't just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.

Mark Batterson

#5. When we have no reason to be happy we often think to end ourselves, We often think we have no one in this world, it happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe.

Debolina

#6. We're all going to die. Alone and miserably. With lots of pain. That's the way life goes. People make promises and don't keep them. They say they care about you and forget you.

Karen Marie Moning

#7. Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

H.L. Mencken

#8. Women get a little more excited about New Year's Eve than men do. It's like an excuse: you drink too much, you make a lot of promises you're not going to keep; the next morning as soon as you wake up you start breaking them. For men, we just call that a date.

Jay Leno

#9. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises.

Paulo Coelho

#10. You must make a choice, Libby. I can make you no promises of a fine house or an easy life. I can only pledge that as my wife you will never doubt that I love you and that I will protect you with the last ounce of my strength.

Elizabeth Camden

#11. Other Afghans from American, or from Europe," Amra says, "they come and take picture of her. They take video. They make promises. Then they go home and show their families. LIke she is zoo animal. I allow it because I think maybe they will help. But they forget. I never hear from them.

Khaled Hosseini

#12. When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.

John F. Kerry

#13. I don't make promises, I promise results.

Joe Royle

#14. Somedays will eat you alive. They're promises you make to fool yourself into believing everything will turn out right in the end.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#15. I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes. We're all better off because of his principled stand.

Jon Kyl

#16. I don't make threats. Only promises.

Sarah J. Maas

#17. But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

Mark Kennedy

#18. Don't underestimate your tears. They have the power to strengthen your commitment to your life's purpose and to direct you towards your goal. So, when you cry because of the people who mock or taunt you, be positive and make promises with yourself that you will prove them wrong.

Saad Salman

#19. Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.

Ian McGuire

#20. I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

Barack Obama

#21. Success is a choice; a promise that you make to yourself to keep moving forward.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#22. If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

Gina Greenlee

#23. Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

Francis Marion

#24. Promise yourself that you will not leave this world before accomplishing what is important to you and what matters for the world.

Debasish Mridha

#25. I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise

Steve Maraboli

#26. And tell your wife whatever you want, but don't make promises you're not going to keep. And don't knock yourself out over it; you didn't invent infidelity.

Marc Fitten

#27. I'm serious, Brishen. Promise me you'll not get yourself killed or maimed out there."
"I can't make that promise, Ildiko, but I can swear to do my best to come back with all arms and legs attached."
She frowned. "Your head too, if you please."
Brishen laughed then. "My head too.

Grace Draven

#28. 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?

Monica Johnson

#29. All I want to do is, help you rebuild yourself.
Restructure your devastated heart. For I
know, it's impossible to build the exact same
shrine once destroyed in a place but at least
you can make a garden of bliss over a
wreckage

Sameer Khan

#30. Don't make promises you can't keep. Not even to yourself, sweetheart.

Ambrosea Brown

#31. Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#32. Better come with me before your eyes make promises your stomach can't keep.

Orson Scott Card

#33. You can make a thousand promises to yourself that you'll take that same fantastic love and give it to someone else, but the moment you see that person with someone else, it's like a gut full of razorblades. It never gets easier. And it shouldn't, really.

Corey Taylor

#34. 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.

Virginia Postrel

#35. He didn't lead anyone on, or make any promises. Instead he conveyed a sense of calm and equanimity, like a man who had banished from his life all superfluous sentiment, all longings and all patience for the nonessential. He was like Yoda, Buddha and the Gladiator all rolled into one.

Michael Robotham

#36. You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#37. As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

Bill Maher

#38. The politician, Johnson's experience had taught him, could make promises without keeping them; words spoken in public had little relation to the practical conduct of daily life. But whatever justification a politician may claim for deceptions, the statesman must align his words with his action.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#39. I know not to make false promises anymore.

Ryan Manley

#40. When you make a promise, you're not giving your word in erasable pencil, you're inscribing your commitment in indelible ink.

Frank Sonnenberg

#41. If you hear screaming, it's my meltdown. Do me a favor and make sure I stay dressed."
Those hazel eyes took their sweet time taking in every inch of my body. "I make no promises.

Ashlan Thomas

#42. This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understand
how war promises a boy it can make a man out of him.

Richard Peck

#43. Many people expect, just as they did then, "those at the top" to make all their decisions for them: Please get us work, and take care of our rent. These people vote for those who shout the loudest and deliver promises that are ultimately impossible to fulfill.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

#44. I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

Stephen Covey

#45. Results outweigh any claims or promises that you could possibly make.

Idowu Koyenikan

#46. Meeting your obligations is the definition of adulthood, kid. If you're going to make mistakes and break promises, now's the time.

Nicola Yoon

#47. The ability to make and keep promises is the key aspect to trust in a relationship.

Robert Cheeke

#48. There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble.

Meredith Duran

#49. Here's what I've learned about "soon"; it's short for "someday." We make space in our lives for what matters, now. Not in promises and soons, but on mantels with sterling frames, in shelves we clear to make room for our now. Everything else i talk.

Stephanie Klein

#50. Promises, eh? You make so many, but how many of them can you keep?

S. Jae-Jones

#51. The guy is a total idiot. Forget him," Luke said, and wiped the lone tear that was running down her cheek. "I promise I won't ever do that to you."
"Please don't make promises if you can't keep them," she said, feeling her guard going up a little.
"I always keep my promises.

Kat Green

#52. The word never shouldn't exist; that way we would be less inclined to make promises we can't keep.

Pablo De Santis

#53. The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#54. It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep.

V.C. Andrews

#55. You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn't, is a goddamned fool.

Jenna Woginrich

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

Denis Waitley

#57. Don't make promises when you are motivated or happy. Don't make decisions when you are nervous or upset.

Ehab Atalla

#58. It was one of those youthful promises that you make to yourself and keep long after you stop recognizing what you are doing, or how it is distorting your life.

Adam Haslett

#59. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy

Martin Luther King Jr.

#60. 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.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#61. The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#62. 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.

Geoff Hoon

#63. I should not make any promises right now,
But I know if you
Pray
Somewhere in this world -
Something good will happen.

Hafez

#64. MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

Hillary DePiano