Promise Quotes - Page 6

• Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

  Hannah Arendt

  Keeping Promises, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Quality, Friends Forever, Finest

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.50, Conari Press

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• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Inspirational, Funny, Trust

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Mistake

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

  Wernher von Braun

  Business, Science, Space

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, May 1961

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• Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

  Norman Douglas

  Mean, Thinking, Keeping Promises

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• The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

  Jane Byrne

  Government, People, Giving

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• You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

  Cher

  Apology, Apologizing, I Apologize

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• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Graduation, Dream

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• The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Keeping Promises, Yesterday, Political

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• Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

  Thomas Fuller

  Keeping Promises, Advice, Broken Promises

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• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

  Robert Frost

  Tattoo, Running, Taken

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Single, Hurt, Hate

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• Let God's promises shine on your problems.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, Godly, Shine On

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• God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Too Good To Be True, Made

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• I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Lying, Apology, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Guiding Principles, Long, Way

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• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, House, Tree

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

  David Brinkley

  Mean, Moon, Keeping Promises

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• Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!

  Charles Atlas

  Tired, Faces, Sand

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• It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

  Eric Hoffer

  Power, Evil, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

  Thomas Huxley

  Prophet, Messiah

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

  Michael Gambon

  Years, Play, I Promise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

  Barbara Jordan

  America, People, Trying

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• The future is a bright as the promises of God.

  Adoniram Judson

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