Quotes About Promise

Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

All I can promise is I'll do my very best. I'll try as hard as I can.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

I moved on with my life but I still have a big commitment to Terri. I made her a promise.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

We'll be back. I promise you that.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Everything I do from now on, I'll have a mustache. I can promise you that. I don't care who I have to convince. If you see me with a mustache in a movie or on stage in the future, you'll know that I pitched the idea.

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.