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Quotes About Promises

Self-centric is mentally sick to post own photo pic with almost everything & everyone and licks the boots of rich people to attain or retain high position, doesn't stick to own promises, discusses mostly about news topics & politics and ensures to see often around oneself the crowd of selfish or foolish public.
~ Anuj Somany
America was promises…It was Man who had been promised.
~ Archibald MacLeish
America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
~ Archibald MacLeish
thing with God sometimes. We know He has promised to be there. But things happen
~ Arleta Richardson
The righteous anger of an authoritative leader doesn't cast anyone into outer darkness. It always promises to be forgotten when things are set right, because authoritative leaders have no permanent enemies and are capable of love for all. Authoritative leaders can get angry, but they are still nice people.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
I ran on fixing the roads... I ran on cleaning up drinking water.
~ Gretchen Whitmer
By withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the U.S. cedes power and influence to our rivals. If we retreat on our promises and cede leadership on climate issues, we lose credibility. Further, we lose the ability to hold other countries accountable for a broader range of issues.
~ Christine Todd Whitman
Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
~ Frederick Douglass
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality bound to the quality of the intellect.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Always it had been the same; leaders arose holding before men the illusion of vast, glorious promises while they carefully led them into hells of lost dreams and broken promises.
~ Fritz Leiber
The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Un libro no leído es un proyecto no cumplido. Tener a la vista libros no leídos es como girar cheques sin fondos: un fraude a las visitas.
~ Gabriel Zaid
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
~ Adam Clarke
I wouldn't even go into the history of the last days of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal from Europe, and what promises were given at that time, because those were oral promises, and our leaders of that time strongly believe that, like in ancient Russia, a word given is better than any treaty.
~ Sergei Lavrov
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
~ James L. Buckley
My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
~ Chris Hughes
People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
~ Maisie Williams
People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
~ Viggo Mortensen
At the end of the day, I'm fighting for the things I said I'd fight for.
~ Ron DeSantis
Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Any time you throw your weight behind a political party that controls two thirds of the government and that party can't keep the promise that it made to you during election time and you're dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify yourself with that party, you're not only a chump but you're a traitor to your race.
~ Malcolm X
Totalitarianisms may crumble from within, as they fail to keep the promises that brought them to power; or they may be attacked from without; or both. There are no sure-fire formulas, since very little in history is inevitable.
~ Margaret Atwood
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
~ Zig Ziglar