Quotes About Promise

It turned out pre-commitment was strikingly successful—resolving clearly to do something, and making a pledge that they'd stick to it, made the men significantly better at holding out.

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand; Yet we are checked and thwarted on each side By the world's flux and swept along like sand: In this internal storm and outward tide We hear a promise, hard to understand: From the compulsion that all creatures binds, Who overcomes himself, his freedom finds.

do they know when we are well and happy? do they know when we recall their memories with the fondest love? In the silent hour of evening the shade of my mother hovers around me; when seated in the midst of my children, I see them assembled near me, as they used to assemble near her; and then I raise my anxious eyes to heaven, and wish she could look down upon us, and witness how I fulfil the promise I made to her in her last moments, to be a mother to her children.

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.

The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.

The Lord, creator of life, has given us information to act upon that is guaranteed by him to guide us to our goal of life eternal.

Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.

I'm sorry I can't give you the normal life you wanted, but I promise to adore you every day for the rest of your new one.

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

I made one decision in my life based on money and I swore I would never do it again.

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Barack didn't pledge riches, only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he delivered.

When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word.

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.