Promise Quotes - Page 18

• God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, People, Waiting

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• Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.

  Max De Pree

  Commitment, Opportunity, Leader

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

  Max De Pree

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

  Jim DeMint

  Integrity, Character, Select

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• I'm still producing scripted features, and I am already working on a new documentary project with Norman Lear and Lara Bergthold. It is about the Declaration of Independence and the relevance of the document today. And it will be fun and engaging - I promise!

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Fun, Independence, Today

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Europe and America should judge Georgia's leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Europe And America, Judging, Georgia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Many people expect, just as they did then, "those at the top" to make all their decisions for them: Please get us work, and take care of our rent. These people vote for those who shout the loudest and deliver promises that are ultimately impossible to fulfill.

  Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

  People, Decision, Care

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If we want to avoid a clash of cultures - and the jury is still out on whether we can - we'll have to make different cultures and religions compatible with the universal nature of human rights and tolerance. But I can promise you this: Anyone who calls me an infidel at the conference will be in for a fight.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Fighting, Rights, Tolerance

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• Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come true.

  Lionel

  Dream, Self, Empowerment

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• Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, World, May

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.138, AudioInk

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• ...education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured.

  Greg Mortenson

  School, Commitment, Long

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.60, Penguin

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• Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

  Max De Pree

  Effort, Genuine, Earning Trust

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• God's promises are not always fulfilled as quickly as or in the way we might hope; they come according to His timing and in His ways.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Might, Way, Timing

  "Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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• I can't promise you that you'll ever live in a world where people don't hurt your feelings. But I can promise you that if you keep on moving and taking one day at a time, the opinions and words of people who hurt you will matter less and less to you.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Moving, People

  "10 Times Taylor Swift Gave You The Best Life Advice Ever" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. July 30, 2014.

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• From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.

  George Saunders

  Reading, Love You, Kids

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• There are reports that if Joe Biden runs for president, he would promise to serve for only one term - because nothing says confidence like promising your presidency would be over quickly.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, President, Would Be

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• I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

  George R. R. Martin

  Calling, Found, Young

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.226, Bantam

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

  Jack Bauer

  Missing, Trying, Ifs

  "Make it end, Jack, be quick" by Jane Simon, www.mirror.co.uk. August 4, 2003.

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• I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises.

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Country, Jobs, People

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• Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.

  Jim Rohn

  Mind, Thieves, Purses

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• It was easier to break promises when they weren't voiced.

  Lorraine Heath

  Break, Easier

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• My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor.

  Colin Angle

  Priorities, Vision, Research

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• The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain - even if only momentarily - a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding.

  Don Richard Riso

  Moving, Self, Understanding

  Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson (2000). “Understanding the Enneagram: The Practical Guide to Personality Types”, p.370, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God does so love to make a man break a promise.

  Simon R. Green

  Men, Doe, Break

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.14, Penguin

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• The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important than the spiritual, all in the spirit of 'the holidays.' So we celebrate the arrival on Christmas Day of iPods and DVDs... Then again, maybe this is precisely the kind of seasonal silliness that causes the Christian faithful to shut out the noise and contemplate the real nativity scene and its eternal promise.

  L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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