Promise Quotes - Page 18

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

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Good appearance doesn’t make a real man. The important thing is to do your best and keep your promises. A real man should show his faith in actions (rather) than words.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.

I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed.

Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the wise. The path of spirituality is not a bed of roses. But neither is it a chimerical mist. The Golden Shores of the Beyond are not a mere promise. The crown of human aspiration is bound to be fulfilled on the Golden Shores of the Beyond.

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.

Dimitri: "Why did you come here?" Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here.

If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

The great promise of Scripture is that every day is a day that's worth rejoicing in.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!

Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.

We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.