Promise Quotes - Page 39

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.

Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

If I keep my promises to the Lord, He will always keep His promises to me. He [will] always fulfill His end of the bargain—and much, much more—if I fulfill mine.

All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

And I swear, if there is a way for us to be together, I will find it. No matter how long it takes. If I have to chase your soul to the ends of eternity, I won't stop until I find you, I promise.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.

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.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

If you try to shoot me, I will have to shoot you back and I promise I will not miss.

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.