Quotes About Promises

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Everyone is a millionaire where promises are concerned

Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Forgive me. I'm talking politics again. I swear not to talk about politics tonight, my brother. You know how hard that is for someone who believes everything is political.

I'm a loser for believing in all the promises your America made to people like me. You came and said we were friends, but what we didn't know was that you could never trust us, much less respect us. Only losers like us couldn't have seen what's so obvious now, how you wouldn't want anyone for your friend who actually wanted to be your friend. Deep down you suspect only fools and traitors would believe your promises.

Beware of conference-room promises. (Ronald Moen.)

All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

You can live each day in the confidence of God's promises.

Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

Indeed,"wrote C. S. Lewis142, "if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.

In the first days of his time in office," I said, "doesn't he smile at and greet whomever he meets, and not only deny he's a tyrant but promise much in private and public, and grant freedom from debts and distribute land to the people and those around himself, and pretend to be gracious and gentle to all?

If all we're doing is flinging words and emotions in all directions without any real consideration for the specific ways the enemy is targeting us and the promises of God that apply to us, we're mostly just wasting our time.

Making sense of God's call is not a prerequisite for following it. His Word and His promises are enough.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

The great revelation of the will of God is the Word of God. And the Word of God is packed from beginning to end with divine promises. The

How do I know the will of God? Where is the will of God revealed? The answer is in His Word. The great revelation of the will of God is the Word of God. And the Word of God is packed from beginning to end with divine promises. The

Faith begins to praise God before the promised victory, not merely after it.

The prophecies and the promises of God's Word are never an excuse to cease praying. On the contrary, they are intended to provoke us to pray with increased earnestness and understanding. God reveals to us the purposes that He is working out, not that we may be passive spectators on the sidelines of history, but that we may personally identify ourselves with His purposes and thus become actively involved in their fulfillment. Revelation demands involvement.

Your prayers are powerful. To resist is to take action; it is not being passive. It means you take a stand and don't budge, come wind or high water. You stand on God's promises while confessing His Word. When you do this, then God does the rest.