Promise Quotes - Page 45

Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.

Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

The future is plump with promise.

We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

...when I prayed to receive Jesus Christ as my Savior, I had made that promise...: 'If You'll make Your will for my clear, I'll do it no matter what!'

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

President-elect Trump has made very clear he wants to make good on the promises that we as a nation have made to the seniors who rely upon Medicare and certainly the lower-income Americans who rely upon Medicaid and other entitlements like Social Security, frankly, for those who receive that.