Quotes About Promises

His vows of a moment before were forgotten, swept away in that great swift wind. Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the promises he had made himself. Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.

No me sentía culpable de romper las promesas que me había hecho a mi mísmo, tales solo existen para los que aceptan lo corriente. Uno que ha palpado la perfección en su aprendizaje no necesita esa clase de promesas.

Still, it had been a triumphal six-week tour. The nervy, smooth-talking governor had dispossessed the natives of 20,000 square miles without firing a shot. In return, the Indians were given nine reservations totaling about 93 square miles and promised $300,000 in hardware over the next two decades and a few vocational services. The U.S. government was subject to no penalties if it welshed on any of its promises.

I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.

And so, by the end, you have tried soft love and tough love, feelings and reason, truth and lies, promises and threats, hope and stoicism.

He held her gaze steady while he summarized her promises. "She will honor me, protect me, obey me only when she believes I'm being reasonable—but I shouldn't hold out hope that that day will ever come—try to love me before she's an old woman, and I'd better get it straight in my mind that she will respect me until or unless I do something to prove I'm not worthy, and God save me then. Have I left anything out, Brenna?

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.

Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.

Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises.

Money is the reward for risks taken, value delivered and promises kept.

When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

Never let your campaigns write cheques that your website can't cash.