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Quotes About Promise

We accept the cures, with the promise of future struggles, in defiance of death.
~ Benjamin Rubenstein
Beware of those who promise a quick and easy way, for much ease brings many difficulties.
~ Jonathan Star, Tao Te Ching
Your hope will never be cut off.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
They hugged, tight and warm and full of the promise he'd made upon waking up.
~ James Dashner, The Kill Order
All my dreams will be fulfilled at the proper time.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
People will promise you the moon, offer you the stars, but in the end, the only heavenly body you can truly count on is your on!
~ Linda Masemore Pirrung
You have a great potential.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours, " Lifesong said. "My breath become yours.
~ Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
Show me that horizon, promise me a world better than this on the other side of the sun.
~ Saim .A. Cheeda
What if I said, there was a way
~ Noah P. Woodward
A promise is just an empty shell filled with words, and words are weightless.
~ Lik Hock Yap Ivan
Ask, and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!
~ Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth
There is deep darkness before the dawn of light.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
ANSON: I want to give you the world, but a man like me doesn't have the world to give. [He ... leveled her with a gold-eyed look that ripped at her heart.] I can give you me.
~ T. S. Joyce
For a little reward, people make a long journey; for eternal life many will scarcely lift a foot off the ground. They seek poor rewards of money in their shameful strife. For a trivial promise, people will work day and night.
~ James Watkins
There is nothing original I can offer this child. I am obligated to make an offering, however, a virgin to the gods, a stuffed animal to a new baby. If I lay this gift on the altar, will you promise me I'll never get pregnant? I
~ Jami Attenberg
What use do we have from the untruth when we eat together in peace and when each of us has given his word not to harm one another
~ Jan Guillou
Then the parents might be released from their promise. But in that case, the monks at the same time would be placing themselves, knowingly and willingly, above the clearly manifested will of God.
~ Jan Guillou
Rejoice! Know that I am with you and for you and will never leave you; take courage that I will fight for you and be your shield and buckler and provide for you when you are old; I will supply your every need, I will give you victory over death, I have prepared a place for you in heaven
~ Jan Karon
God will use this loss for good. I promise.
~ Jan Karon
Remember our good verse from Jeremiah, 'I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
~ Jan Karon
Fancy education isn't everything. You don't need a doctorate to be an intelligent, sensitive, kind, and caring person which you truly, truly are, Harley. Forty boxes of books cannot equal that, I totally promise you.
~ Jan Karon
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defense of some little peculiar vexation.
~ Jane Austen
The Promise" Stay, I said to the cut flowers. They bowed their heads lower. Stay, I said to the spider, who fled. Stay, leaf. It reddened, embarrassed for me and itself. Stay, I said to my body. It sat as a dog does, obedient for a moment, soon starting to tremble. Stay, to the earth of riverine valley meadows, of fossiled escarpments, of limestone and sandstone. It looked back with a changing expression, in silence. Stay, I said to my loves. Each answered, Always.
~ Jane Hirshfield