promise quotes

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

A promise must never be broken.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.