Quotes About Promises

Folks, talk is cheap. False promises are deceptive and talk and revolution isn't changing anyone's life.

Someone who spoke English had been listening to his speeches of promised freedom and would have realized they were the drunken lies of men who have titles of power but no authority to exercise it.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

There were promises made to me as far as if I became a professional wrestler, that I was going to be given every opportunity to be a headliner... and that's the only reason why I accepted.

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises attached to it, comes to be given a kind of arbitrary but persistent importance.

Es la fe lo que mueve montañas, no los hechos. Los hechos no generan fe; la fe necesita un relato que la apoye: una historia significativa que inspire confianza en ti y renueve la esperanza de que tus ideas ofrecen realmente lo que prometes. La influencia genuina va más allá de lograr que las personas hagan lo que quieres que hagan. Significa que la gente toma tu relevo porque creen en ti.» Annette Simmons

There are some politicians who promise something for everyone. If their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries for dinner, fattened at public expense.

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he [Harry Truman] would have promised to provide them with free missionaries, fattened at the taxpayers' expense.

The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility??of being unable to undo what one has done??is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.

Strengthened by the experiences of almost two decades in the various capitals, the Nazis were confident that their best "propaganda" would be their racial policy itself, from which, despite many other compromises and broken promises, they had never swerved for expediency's sake.

he gains as much power by the system of mutual promises as he loses by his consent to a monopoly of power in the ruler

Il rimedio all'imprevedibilità della sorte,alla caotica incertezza del futuro è la facoltà do fare e mantenere promesse

Love isn't about keeping promises. It's about knowing someone better than anyone else. I'm the only one who knows him. I'm the only one who ever will.

Love isn't about keeping promises. It's about knowing someone better than anyone else. I'm the only one who knows him. I'm the only one who ever will.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have not been responsible. Instead they have vied in an arms race towards a more and more extreme form of Brexit. Deeper red lines, even more ludicrous promises, but absolutely no coherent or workable plan for the country.

Politicians make a lot of promises when they are campaigning, and they come to towns, and people get enthusiastic about them coming to their communities. And then they don't fulfill the promises.

To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

After watching Taro reach the brink of bankruptcy, seeing their shares delisted from trading, hearing endless false promises about receiving audited financial statements, and witnessing an unchecked drain of company resources, the shareholders have clearly had enough.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.

Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers