Promise Quotes - Page 19

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

We can't, and we should not, compare sufferings. We come together as a family of God, hand in hand. And then together coming and standing upon the promises of God, knowing that no matter who you are, no matter what you're going through, that God knows it, He is with you, He is going to pull you through.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.

I bring good tidings to our beloved Prophet Muhammad: Allah's promise and the Prophet's prophecy of our victory in Palestine over the Jews and over the oppressive Zionists has begun to come true.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

Amway gets people into a new life of excitement, promise, profit, and hope.

The world is always full of promise.

Although his time is not always our time, we can be sure that the lord keeps his promises.

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

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

Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.