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Quotes About Promise

A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.
~ Ian Caldwell
Rain wasn't quite falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.
~ Ian Rankin
Many as we are we're all as one We will always be up front to face the gun And we shall always hold the promise dear And we will whisper not, the littlest tear. Punished as we are we always fight Even to the armoured eyes of spite. Trusted as we are we'll never bleed The promise is so great within our creed.
~ Unknown
Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.
~ Idries Shah
Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: 'when the generous promise, they perform
~ Idries Shah
Dicho del Profeta No es de los míos quien miente, rompe una promesa o defrauda la confianza depositada en él.
~ Idries Shah
Never promise, even by implication, without fulfilling your promise. The only acceptable alternative to completing an undertaking is to over-fulfil it. To betray any promise, explicit or otherwise, will harm you more than it can harm anyone else.
~ Idries Shah
La generosidad también se caracteriza por hacer lo que uno dice que hará.
~ Idries Shah
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain — the equality of all men.
~ Ignazio Silone
We'll explore it together if you promise me a kiss when we get to the middle." Color stained her cheeks. "A lady never promises any such thing." "I might have to steal one, then." She opened her fan and waved it, but he could see the heat spreading up her face and grinned.
~ Colleen Coble
Sadly, some twist the Gospel into "this for that," which is no gospel at all. But God doesn't work in this way. His Gospel is truly Good News for all people. It is not an "if-then" gospel, but rather a "since-then" Gospel, or even more a "because-therefore" Gospel!
~ Unknown
If moral works would merit the forgiveness of sins and justification, there would also be no need for Christ and the promise.
~ Unknown
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
~ Confucius
We are nothing but the oath we give.
~ Conn Iggulden
Temujin snorted. "Never lose faith in me, little brother. My word is iron and I will always come home.
~ Conn Iggulden
I will finish what I have begun. I have said it. This is my khanate.
~ Conn Iggulden
When we meet again, Spartan,' he murmured aloud, in prayer, 'when you ask me what we did after your death, I will not be ashamed. I promise you that. I will bring them back.
~ Conn Iggulden
O problema do prazer estético é sempre, antes de mais nada, um problema de atenção, e um mundo de prazeres é uma promessa que se realiza só para quem sabe prestar atenção.
~ Unknown
He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You've got no cause to hurt me, she said. - I know. But I gave my word. - Your word? - Yes. We're at the mercy of the dead here. In this case your husband. - That dont make no sense. - I'm afraid it does
~ Cormac McCarthy
Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
~ Cornel West
No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
We are the children of a king and have in our possession the key to our Father's storehouse. All its treasures are ours to use at any moment. —Eva von Tiele-Winckler
~ Corrie Ten Boom