Top 100 Quotes About Promises
#1. Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test ... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.
Rick Warren
#2. Yes. I love you. I should have told you sooner, Lina. Not that I deserve to have your love after what I did to you. I wasn't there for you when you needed me. And I promised you I wouldn't let you down again. I'm not a guy who goes back on his promises. Can you ever forgive me for that?
Jaci Burton
#3. What we strive to restore and re-animate will never come from the promises of the middle class politicians, but will come instead from the spirit of the last Delphic prophecy, which foresaw that, 'One day Apollo will return and it will be forever'.
Guillaume Faye
#4. I'm a realist," I said. "Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.
Nicole Williams
#5. Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses ... the louses.
Yvonne De Carlo
#6. Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.
Michael Gove
#7. History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.
Ron Paul
#8. Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#9. The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
Paracelsus
#10. When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee - God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable.
Eugene H. Peterson
#11. Cassie's Rules for a Happy Life:
#1 - Don't Lie
#2 - Don't Cheat
#3 - Don't Make Promises You Can't Keep
#4 - Don't Say Things You Don't Mean
J. Sterling
#12. But have we Holy Ghost power-power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
Leonard Ravenhill
#13. It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#14. My heart is broken;
my spirit's gone,
I broke my lover's heart,
I made promises,
I broke them all.
The end was near,
I've crossed to the other side,
My heart is broken, my spirit's gone,
I made promises, I broke them all.
Quetzal
#15. In America, only opportunity is assured, not outcomes. Anyone who promises otherwise is acting contrary to the values upon which our Republic was founded.
Brad Thor
#16. The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
Jerry Bridges
#17. I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.
Cristina Henriquez
#18. Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD" (Psalm 27:14). God promises to strengthen your heart as you learn to wait upon Him through prayer, meditation, and worship. "O
Lloyd Hildebrand
#19. I wanted to dissolve into the floor, mixing myself with the hard stone. A stone had a single purpose: to be. No complicated promises, no worries and no feelings.
Maria V. Snyder
#20. The wilderness is a place where we can lean on God and trust His promises, but it's also a place to discover that the arms He provides and the ears that listen to our fears sometimes belong to flesh-and-blood people.
Lynn Austin
#21. Hope is that inner image you hold on to, the image generated by God's promises. When hope is lost, your faith no longer has a mission to accomplish. God's Word contains your reason to hope!
Evangeline Colbert
#22. God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#23. That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.
Kathleen Glasgow
#24. God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#25. As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
Georgette Heyer
#26. Remember your promises. Remember tha none of it is real
Cassandra Clare
#27. The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
Ben Harper
#28. So, I'm not impressed by BP's promises and I'm not ready to take the word of a company with a track record of pursuing profit over safety.
Patty Murray
#29. In my world, I don't believe in forever promises. I don't think it's realistic.
Evangeline Lilly
#30. God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises.
Charles Spurgeon
#31. We're looking at a huge gap between what an entire generation thinks is going to happen during its retirement years and the funds that are there - or, more accurately, are not there - to make good on all those promises.
John C. Goodman
#32. If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.
Elisabeth Elliot
#34. Before she closed the door, she hit me with this one: "I feel like it's November first," she said, "and I'm that discarded jack-o'-lantern whose heart and guts are splattered all over the boulevard of broken promises."
"And a good night to you, too," I said.
Rick Detorie
#37. Loss adjusters are noble men who frustrate and negate the bland promises of insurance. We act out of the great unbending principles in life: nothing is sure, nothing is certain, nothing is free, nothing is forever. It is a noble calling.
William Boyd
#38. Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.
James Russell Lowell
#39. Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.
E. M. Forster
#40. Sometimes it's the promises we don't say that are the ones that are the loudest.
T.J. Klune
#41. I had a choice: I could believe the lies of the devil, in which case I was on my way to suicide, or I could believe in the promises of God, and be taken through my time of trial.
Angus Buchan
#42. 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.
Sergei Lavrov
#43. They do think the world is some kind of science-fiction novel, then. Do you realize how fervently most people will believe in the promises of technology, even when those promises fly in the face of common sense?
Dexter Palmer
#44. Religions are promises
promises that there is something watching over us, guiding us.
Brandon Sanderson
#45. Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.
Ethel M. Dell
#46. When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.
Bob Anderson
#47. Lavender Lady not go again," Kiki said in my mind.
"I'll try to avoid it. No promises, though."
She huffed. "Next time Kiki go."
"A Horsefinder?"
"Help Lavender Lady.
Maria V. Snyder
#48. Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.
Seth
#49. 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
#50. Evil people can still keep promises. Many have done just that, girl, though they are usually not promises you 'rational' people wish them to keep.
Tim Reed
#51. A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises.
Euripides
#52. The two of us warmed by a bold beam of light that wicks the moisture from my dress, my hair, and my skin - returning it to the sky where it promises to find me again in the form of dew, snow, or rain.
Alyson Noel
#53. Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
Jared Polis
#54. What we desire in our hearts, Arathan, and what must be ... well, that is a rare embrace, so rare you're likely to never know it. You have lived that truth. I have no promises to make you. I cannot say what awaits you, but you are now in your year and the time has come for you to make your life.
Steven Erikson
#55. If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.
Ole Hallesby
#56. He swears. He promises. One of these days will be the day that changes everything.
Nathan Hill
#57. Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled.
Frank Navran
#58. Sex contained all sorts of promises - I love you, I will see you again, I will not hurt you. It bonded people. It took down defenses. It made humans do unwise things with their hearts and their money.
Maggie LaCroix
#59. Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
#60. Unlike the made and broken promises of love, the transactions of employment were absolute. "Love's
Suanne Laqueur
#62. No sense of satisfaction, but my uncle's death had taught me that revenge is far less sweet than it promises to be. An empty meal, however long you take over it.
Mark Lawrence
#63. A god who brings you good and bad in equal amounts doesn't ask for much, " she said. "Maybe a prayer or two. Maybe the odd sacrifice of a beast. But a god who promises only good times?" She shook her head and made the warding sign against evil. "A god like that will always want something from you.
John Flanagan
#64. One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much.
Jael McHenry
#65. I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.
Harry Browne
#66. Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#67. Reality Tv had become the preferred drug of choice for the George Clooney obsessed housewives strung out on empty promises and splintered dreams
Saira Viola
#68. If you stare into a flame You'll get an eye full of energy If you write your nightscapades You'll get a dawn full of promises
Happy Rhodes
#69. Beloved, God's promises can never fail to be accomplished, and those who patiently wait can never be disappointed, for a believing faith leads to realization.
Lettie B. Cowman
#70. To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.
Mason Cooley
#72. 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
#73. No matter what the circumstances, we can be grateful that God fulfills His promises, that our faith is sufficient to sustain us, and that our eternal life is assured.
Mary C. Neal
#74. Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil
#75. The gold of a lowland lord is as worthless as a half man's promises' Gunthor said.
'Half a man I may be' Tyrion said. 'Yet I have the courage to face my enemies. What do the Stone Crows do, but hide behind rocks and shiver with fear as the knights of the Vale ride by?
George R R Martin
#76. The mayor will be remembered because of his refusal to accept political favors and he kept his campaign promises.
Alicia Mendoza
#77. There'll always be small, bitter people ready to follow some charismatic leader who promises them peace and happiness through justified violence and the killing of scapegoats.
Simon R. Green
#79. The power to believe a promise depends entirely on our faith in the one who promises.
Andrew Murray
#80. I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed.
Michelle Franklin
#81. Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.
Joan D. Chittister
#82. The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
Joseph Heller
#84. Any time, any place? I ask, gazing out across the glittering lake.
A breeze disturbs it's silver surface. In a heartbeat, Phoenix promises.
Eden Maguire
#85. In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.
Martin Luther
#86. Now's the time for sweet good-bye To what could never be, To promises we ne'er could keep, To a magic you and me. If we should try to prove our love, Our love would be in danger. Let's put our love beyond all harm. Good-bye - sweet, gentle stranger.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#87. Go to the Scriptures ... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
Andrew Jackson
#88. We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.
John Rachel
#89. My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.
Richard M. Nixon
#90. Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
Cornelia Funke
#91. For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.
Michael Chabon
#94. Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.
George Gerbner
#96. Farewell is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises nothing.
Kate DiCamillo
#97. If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.
Thomas Sowell
#98. Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing that for years. They're called campaign promises.
Jay Leno
#99. They weren't lies but promises, however silently made. He wanted to keep her. She wanted to let him. They both wanted for the wrong reasons.
Ruthie Knox
#100. President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.
Paul Ryan
