You Promise Yourself Quotes

#1. Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

Jack Kerouac

#2. When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate - in any field - are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent.

Tom Platz

#3. There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.

Susan Cheever

#4. Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

James T. McCay

#5. You ever feel like home is the one place you can't go back to? It's like you promise yourself when you got out of bed and combed your hair that this evening, when I get back I'll be a different woman in a new place. And now you can't go back because the house expects something from you.

Marlon James

#6. Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again.

James T. McCay

#7. So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.

Kamila Shamsie

#8. In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.

Jean Chatzky

#9. Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering through pages as you promise yourself just one more chapter; they shouldn't put you to sleep as you tackle a paragraph for the fifth time.

Kate Morton

#10. Living is what you promise yourself you'll do after the next chapter.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. Unrequited love is like buying a dress that you can't fit into but you promise yourself you'll diet for - you can't think about the dress, only about the fact that your body is too big for it.

Kate Le Vann

#12. If you still crave financial thrills or feel compelled to have exciting investments to talk about with folk at parties, then designate a very small corner of your portfolio as mad money, to be deployed in 'exciting' investments. Just make sure to promise yourself that when it's gone, it's gone.

William J. Bernstein

#13. Master the chaos within yourself and I promise you, you will gain the strength to withstand any storm.

Nikki Rowe

#14. If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?"

Ed Bliss

#15. Let yourself feel good again, laugh with friends, have fun. Living your life to the full is not betrayal of a memory but fulfillment of a promise to someone who would want only the best for you.

Karen Katafiasz

#16. Stay put," he says. "Don't touch yourself. Don't put your legs together. You'll come when I let you, Nikki, but not before. Break my rules, and I promise you won't like the punishment.

J. Kenner

#17. Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. Ash, it's because of you that I am here today. You have always been there, never wavering, protecting me with no thought for yourself. You've been my teacher, my knight and my only love. Now it's my turn to make that promise.

Julie Kagawa

#19. There are so many ways to betray someone.
You can whisper behind his back.
You can deceive him on purpose.
You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you.
You can break a promise.
The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?

Jodi Picoult

#20. Promise yourself you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best in yourself and others. Promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future.

John Wooden

#21. 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

#22. I made a promise. The kind of promise you don't break because, if you break it you've broken part of yourself, maybe the most important part.

Rick Yancey

#23. But come down. Come here. I can promise to give you this: an appetite for silence. Loneliness, and ways to find it when you need to. How to hold yourself safe, apart, tight to the lowest rung.

Kirstin Scott

#24. Promise me this: ... you will stand for yourself, especially in the times when no one seems interested in standing for you.

Melissa Jensen

#25. Just promise me, Mitch, whenever you decide to make the decision, you make it for you. And if you can't make the decision yourself, then you call me. Any time. Any place. I'll be there. No matter what. And we'll make it together. You think you can handle that?

River Savage

#26. 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

#27. He took her face in his bloody hands. I'll come and find you wherever you are. I'll not stop breathing until I do. So you're going to have to promise me that you won't lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive.

Melina Marchetta

#28. Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

Norman Vincent Peale

#29. The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

Deborah Tannen

#30. 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

#31. Marry yourself first
promise never to leave you!

SARK

#32. All is yours. Do not go seeking for that which you are. Appropriate it, claim it, assume it. Everything depends upon your concept of yourself. That which you do not claim as true of yourself, cannot be realized by you. The promise is

Neville Goddard

#33. You're going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise.
You're doing just fine.

Charlotte Eriksson

#34. Don't ever sell yourself short. Stand tall. Never be ashamed of who you are. You are beautiful, you are loved. You are needed. You are worth it. Promise me you won't forget that. Promise me you won't let your scars define who you are. Let your trials shape you. Let your victories humble you.

Jennifer Nettles

#35. Remember that people come and go, and of all the people in your life, you are the one who is there to stay. You are the one who can choose to love yourself, choose to respect yourself, and promise with all your heart and soul that you will never leave you.

Kimberly Kirberger

#36. This doesn't have to be hard, Mr. Carter. Tell me what you did or I promise that you'll never be able to look at yourself in the mirror again.

Natasha Larry

#37. Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them.

Christian D. Larson

#38. Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.

John Wooden

#39. You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.

John O'Donohue

#40. your one true promise can make someone's life beautiful , in the same way your one false promise can destroy someone's life
So make sure yourself about your promise before make sure someone other that you will keep stand on your words.

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

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

Mary Anne Radmacher

#42. There was nothing like an appeal to honor. It was a virtue that all craved, even those who lacked it. Fundamentally, honor was itself a debt, a code of behavior, a promise, something inside yourself that you owed to the others who saw it in you.

Tom Clancy

#43. Come on girls! The Finch wants to dance!"
"Only if you promise not to call yourself that ever again," America said.

Jamie McGuire

#44. Sir, don't make a bigger fool out of yourself because I promise you, if my car is not here when I leave service today ... just pray for rapture.

Jevon L. Mack

#45. I had to determine for myself what it means to be beautiful if I ever wanted to accept my own unique beauty. This is my challenge to you: Define beauty for yourself, and I promise, your outlook on the world around you, as well the world within you, will change forever.

Madelyn Moon

#46. I promise to plant kisses like seeds on you body, so in time you can grow to love yourself as I love you.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#47. Don't ever put yourself in that position again, do you understand me?

I can't promise that, I whispered quietly. I'd rather do it than lose you. Don't you understand how important you are to me?

Arielle Caldwell

#48. Next time you're selling yourself, don't fixate only on what you achieved yesterday. Also emphasize the promise of what you could accomplish tomorrow. - 141

Daniel H. Pink

#49. People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.

Leon Brown

#50. You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.

Felix Dennis

#51. If you won't go to discover your promise land and gift, you will be mocked.

Sunday Adelaja

#52. To forgive' is divine they say, and 'to forget', attracts blessings, but to go a step further, and learn a lesson from a bad encounter/ experience is an act of wisdom;and promise oneself that you will never allow yourself to be exposed to such a thing or a person or even an idea again.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#53. Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

John Wooden

#54. Make a promise: now that you have discovered a force that you were not even aware of, tell yourself that from now on you will use this force for the rest of your days. Preferably, also promise to discover another mountain, and set off on another adventure.

Paulo Coelho

#55. When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

Tony DiCicco

#56. Make a promise to yourself right now, that you will choose your thoughts and words wisely, that you will no longer use disempowered language about yourself, and nor will you ever negatively define yourself by what has occurred in your past.

Miya Yamanouchi

#57. You keep telling yourself you can fight fate. But I promise you, you're wrong. Some things are just meant to happen.

Vi Keeland

#58. I'm going to kiss you now, Evie, and when I do, it's going to mean that you're mine. I don't care how far away from each other we are. You. Are. Mine. I'll wait for you. And I want you to wait for me. Promise me you won't let anyone else touch you. Promise me you'll save yourself for me.

Mia Sheridan

#59. If you score 20 goals one season, then you have to promise yourself that in the following season you will get 25.

Luis Suarez

#60. Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to be by yourself.

Olivia Sudjic

#61. When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!

Israelmore Ayivor

#62. It's better to end something and start another than to imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible. Life can never promise to always be happy but life gets better after you accept things you just can't change. For you Jelle, from me.. with luv. He-he!

Marione Ashley

#63. I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you can get up again and mend yourself. I promise.

Nick Lake

#64. I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.

Steve Maraboli

#65. A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.

Denis Waitley

#66. Happiness comes in many forms - in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It's okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.

Lucas Scott

#67. With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty, which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself everything but health, without which there is no happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

#68. By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth!

Paula White

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

Francis Marion

#70. Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it.

Glenn Beck

#71. Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility.

John O'Donohue

#72. When you open yourself up to people, you let the bad in with the good. I can't promise I won't ever hurt you, Rowen. But it won't be on purpose. I will never hurt you intentionally. I can promise you that.

Nicole Williams

#73. . In order to love yourself really, tests will be provided by life. All that is for your benefit, no matter how hard it is, no matter what the physical end result is. Physical things come and go, your Soul is part of the eternal. We promise you this.

A. Antares

#74. Will you promise to keep this to yourself, to not tell anyone of what we are? By his words you'd think he was giving me a choice. Like I could say,no deal, honey bunch, I'm off to shout your secret from the rooftops, and he'd be like, oh no please don't do that. In
reality, he'd have to kill me.

L. H. Cosway

#75. But there is always a point where things can no longer be put off, where you can't be weak one more day and promise yourself that tomorrow, tomorrow you will start that other life.

Jo Nesbo

#76. The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.

Theodor Reik

#77. you can't promise yourself that you're not going to fall in love with someone. I'm not exactly a relationship expert, but I don't think it works that way

Sarah Ockler

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

Debasish Mridha

#79. More people are watching your life and ... are gaining strength in their own lives and in their own challenges because of what you're going through. I promise you: your life matters, your life is significant, and things are happening that you don't even fully understand yourself.

Jeff Goins

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

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#81. Make a promise to yourself that you will always choose growth over safe and dreams over fear.

Brittany Burgunder

#82. Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Stanley Crawford

#83. Go play your games with Jim. I'll find you both when I need you."
Arrogant asshole. "I tell you what, if you find us before those three days run out, I'll cook you a damn dinner and serve it to you naked."
"Is that a promise?"
"Yes. Go fuck yourself.

Ilona Andrews

#84. Decide then as you set your jaw and clench your teeth that you will get rid of your boy. Promise yourself this. You will get rid of your boy as soon as the cocaine and money run out. Promise yourself. Try to remember the word. Promise. Swear.

Amanda Boyden

#85. C'mon. Just a plate of food, and I promise, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just perch yourself in the corner, eat a plate of ribs, and glower." She winked. "You know, be your usual self.

Susan May Warren

#86. Whatever you are going through, it will not last. I promise you. You are not going to stay there. Tell yourself, "I am not staying here. It is just a season." Seasons change.

Sandra M. Michelle