Promise Quotes - Page 40

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.

Successfully reframing the climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values...holds great promise to help American society better understand and appreciate the risks of climate change.

Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.

If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.

I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president.

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

When you sell a product or service, you're making a promise to your audience. If you don't understand your audience, you'll never be able to keep that promise and you'll ultimately let them down.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?

The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage. We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality to fulfill the covenant and promise God made to Abraham. We are here upon the earth at this time to magnify the priesthood and to preach the gospel. That is who we are, and that is why we are here - today and always.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.