The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. — Dick Gregory
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. — Abraham Lincoln
The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word. — Brian Tracy
April is a promise that May is bound to keep. — Hal Borland
The future is as bright as the promises of God. — William Carey
Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not planning to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good relationship, and good customer service is no exception. — Susan Ward
Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ. — Philipp Melanchthon
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. — Mae West
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Empty Promises Quotes
This fetishization of wanting more, are empty promises of happiness and fulfillment that never seem to come to fruition. — Paul Jarvis
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom. — Vladimir Lenin
If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise. — Charles Handy
"Someday" is a disease that will take dreams to the grave with you.
There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup. — Ted Kooser
Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master. — Miguel de Cervantes
The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty. — Ashraf Ghani
People with good intentions make promises, but people with good character keep them.
Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises. — Teresa Heinz
During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania. — Dalia Grybauskaite
Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action. — Annie Lobert
Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart. — Scott Westerfeld
Gods Promises Quotes
God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you. — Charles Stanley
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen
Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up. — Joyce Meyer
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Living with faith and courage is
something that life requires of
each of us.
Never, absolutely
never, give up! Never give in no
matter what!
Fight it through!
And I promise you something with
all of my heart-God will help
you. — Kathryn Kuhlman
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things. — Corrie Ten Boom
Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him. — Smith Wigglesworth
Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life. — T. D. Jakes
Listen to the long stillness:
New life is stirring
New dreams are on the wing
New hopes are being readied:
Humankind is fashioning a new heart
Humankind is forging a new mind
God is at work.
This is the season of Promise — Howard Thurman
But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises. — Arthur W. Pink
I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him. — William Carey
Don't Make Promises Quotes
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you. — Constantin Stanislavski
There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on. — Paul Castellano
Empower your possibility with the power of your promise.
The world is divided into two classes of people: the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as much), and the many who don't. Get in Column A and stay there. You'll be very valuable wherever you are. — Robert Townsend
Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them. — John Green
Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it. — George Horace Lorimer
Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not. — Cameron Diaz
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. — John Green
Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep. — Howard Dean
No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again — William J. Clinton
God Promises Quotes
The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom. — Maximilian Kolbe
God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come. — Beth Moore
To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God. — William Tyndale
When we demonstrate our faith in God by our obedience, He not only promises to provide for us, He will provide. — Benny Hinn
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. — Charles Wesley
The conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. — Maximilian Kolbe
The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health. — Albert Mohler
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised. — John Bunyan
Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well. — Joni Eareckson Tada
Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. — David Ben-Gurion
Keeping Promises Quotes
The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman
To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself. — Marie Forleo
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. — Robert Frost
Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. — Stephen Covey
Gold and Bitcoin also hedge against inflation, never pay negative interest, and when held directly are not subject to haircuts and do not depend on strangers keeping their promises. — Nick Szabo
People ask me why it is so hard to trust and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise. — Wiz Khalifa
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. — John F. Kennedy
We must keep the promises we make to ourselves so that we can keep those that we make to others. — Jay Shetty
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. — Ray Davies
Broken Promises Quotes
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. — Chief Joseph
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. — Charles Williams
Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen. — James MacDonald
She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets. — Susanna Clarke
People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself. — Leon Brown
If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises. — Helen Prejean
Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises. — Chief Joseph
Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered. — Kelly Miller
Breaking Promises Quotes
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. — Elijah Muhammad
The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something. — Barney Ross
I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you. — Jennifer Donnelly
I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. — Theodore Isaac Rubin
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. — James Madison
No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce. — Peter Kreeft
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. — Robert Bolt
Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize. — George Bernard Shaw
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. — Francis Marion
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. — Christian D. Larson
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
That you have no time to criticise others,
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
And too happy to permit the presence of trouble. — Christian D. Larson
Sometimes as a man, you fear what you can't see. Nobody can predict the future. You don't know what's going to happen. Tomorrow's not promised. The only thing you can do is live your life, hope for the best, continue to have faith, believe in yourself. — Michael Vick
Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. — Stanley Crawford
Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others. — Chetan Bhagat
Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. — Christian D. Larson
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in. — Theodor Reik
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them. — Christian D. Larson
Politicians Promises Quotes
Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation. — John Wayne
He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other. — Tommy Douglas
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. — H. L. Mencken
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves — Thomas Sowell
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. — A. N. Wilson
Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after — Emma Goldman
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. — Mackenzie King
I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money. — Allan Boesak
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? — Barry Goldwater
Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing. — Margaret Thatcher
Political Promises Quotes
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters — Daniel Webster
Europe were promised LNG by the US after cutting Russian buying. They were lied to. Electoral politics more important than a core ally. Biden pulls the LNG terminals even though Qatari LNG has to take the long route due to Red Sea attacks. Europe look like complete clowns. — Philip Pilkington
For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise. — Harry Browne
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic. — Pope Benedict XVI
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy. — Frances Harper
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. — Vladimir Lenin
And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party. — Alice Cooper
We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion. — Jean Vanier
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. — Carl Jung
Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her. — Michelle Obama
The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth. — John F. Kennedy
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. — Maya Angelou
Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift
i guess thats why its the present — Joe Budden
By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth! — Paula White
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it. — Harvey Mackay
I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear. — Steve Maraboli
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life! — John Calvin
There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise. — Gabrielle Roth
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you do not give 110% in your life, I promise your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. Time is the most valuable asset on Earth, a depreciating asset, don’t waste another moment of life where you are not at your fullest potential getting the most out of the time you have in life. — Greg Plitt
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
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