Quotes About Promise

I was told to be accurate, be brief, and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

And whatever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.

God delays, but doesn't forget.

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say, 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to that alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

The future is a great land.

And now, Lord, what wait I for?

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?

No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.