Quotes About Promises

He made so many promises," said the deeply disappointed Obama acolyte Barbara Walters five years into the presidency. "We thought that he was going to be . . . the next messiah." The messiah he was clearly not. He was not even an honest man. Lamented Walters, "People feel very disappointed because they expected more.

Il mondo mi deve un paio di cose.

Salman never forgets his promises and gave me a second chance in 'Mental'. He is the giving type.

If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.

There really is only one difference between the two. Mr. Trump promises to support religious liberty and the dignity of the unborn. Mrs. Clinton promises she will not.

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

No matter what the circumstances, we can be grateful that God fulfills His promises, that our faith is sufficient to sustain us, and that our eternal life is assured.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

When God blesses you, not only will He bless you personally, but He will bless your family, your field, your crops, and your land. According to Deuteronomy 28, God will take you who used to be the tail and make you the head.

God has not forgotten you.

One of the acid tests of our integrity is whether or not we keep the commitments and promises we have made or whether there are loopholes in our word. We might appropriately ask: Do we live the honor code with exactness, or are there loopholes in our word—cracks in our foundation of integrity? Do we honor our commitments as home teachers and visiting teachers, or are there loopholes in our performance? In other words, is our word our bond?

People with good intentions make promises. People with good character keep them.

It does not even matter that the evil man does not fulfill his promises! The people do not care, do not remind him. It is enough that he is evil, and reflects themselves. The mobs are more comfortable in the climate of malignity than the climate of good, which embarrasses and discomfits them, for it is against their nature.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.

I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Am I keeping my promises?

God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.