Top 355 Promise Quotes

God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

This country was founded on a promise of equal rights for all, and we have always managed to move closer to that promise, little by little, one day at a time. It may not be easy – but we’ll get there together.

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.

As leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, I commit to work with all Conservatives to live up to the promise of our great country.

I don’t think any other place puts out music with no promise of success and still works like Baltimore.

Hong Kong was promised democracy under the framework known as ‘one country, two systems,’ and China is ignoring this promise. The international community should be more attuned to this. It matters.

I remember when I was retiring I said to my kids ‘I promise you I’ll never put on weight’ because people always think footballers retire and eat and drink and put on loads of weight.

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

It was a dream come true for me to play with the Montreal Canadiens, and the sad thing is that my promise to the city of bringing a Stanley Cup back and wanting to win one, I won’t be able to fulfill that promise.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The countries in the Paris climate accord have broken almost every promise they’ve made, and the nation (the U.S.) that hasn’t signed the treaty is doing more than any other nation to reduce global warming.

There’s something in the Latino community called ‘la promesa de Obama’ – Obama’s promise. He made very specific promises to the Latino community. He committed to enacting comprehensive immigration reform within his first year.

I have come to believe that America is a promise we have made to one another.

Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I’d play Nintendo 64 with them after we’d rehearse this stupid play that I wrote.

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate.

The story of Detroit’s bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

It’s human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and convenient ways to remove visible clutter. Putting things away creates the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved. But sooner or later, all the storage units are full, and the room once again overflows with things.

I’m confident that Gov. Romney can win over the American people on the promise of limited government, defending individual liberties and a return to common-sense solutions to our country’s biggest problems.

The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.

I think grateful is the right word. Content would be dangerous given there’s still so much I want to achieve. But I’m grateful that I feel like I have fulfilled the promise I showed growing up.

Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.

Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his.

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there’s something in the future for our younger workers. And we’re not about to do a welfare program.

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let’s move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

I think God asks us to promise to replenish the planet and to pay 100% attention to our young so that they will develop character and a good conscience.

I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years.

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.

Above all else, protect your brand. If you or your company doesn’t live up to your brand’s promise, own up to your error.

I tell directors, ‘I can’t promise you a hit, but I can promise you the movie is going to be yours.’ When you work for a studio, they pay you a lot of money, but in exchange for that, they tell you what to do.

We know the threats – from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

If an athlete plays the guitar, they say, ‘That’s so cool, he can play the guitar.’ But if a guy raps, they say, ‘Please don’t be another rapper,’ only because the rappers are so bad. I promise I’m not anything like that.

I still want to see the Knicks do well; I do. I promise I do. That’s my team. After all the stuff that happened, people say to me, ‘You still like the Knicks?’ Well, that’s just the way it is. That’s what happens when you’re a kid. Your team is your team, and everything is die-hard.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

India and the United States have taken a decisive step, away from the past. The dawn of the new century has marked a new beginning in our relations. Let us work to fulfil this promise and the hope of today. Let us remove the shadow of agitation that lies between us and our joint vision.

I want to be able to look my daughter’s teacher in the eye and say, ‘Your pension will be there.’ I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

Americans broadly consent to funding clinical research because they believe in the promise of medical research. But people support scientific work only if they trust that it serves societal interests, respects patient dignity and operates with guardrails.

What I found in my research on Trump’s charitable giving was that often he would promise something and then never deliver, but sort of go around with people believing he’d done this thing he’s promised.

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.