Best Promise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.”

Author:Jared Polis

“I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.”

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Author:Christine Lagarde

“Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.”

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Author:David Limbaugh

“If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.”

Ifs Way Running Heard Promise Ears I Promise Plugs

Author:Sarah Paulson

“Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.”

Ifs Promise

Author:Russell Pearce

“Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.”

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Author:Russell Pearce

“It has been an honor to work in the Barack Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.”

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Author:Dennis A. Ross

“I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.”

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Author:Octavia Spencer

“We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.”

Persons Hard Opportunity Nations Responsibility Hard Work Promise Succeed Remains Personal Responsibility Unbroken Great Nations

Author:Brian Sandoval

“For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.”

Ideas Stories Theory Promise Life Story

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.”

People Party Promise Vote Thirds Third Parties

Author:Edward Snowden

“I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.”

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Author:Lawrence Summers

“After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.”

Made Inspiring Secret Promise Kissing Mouths Ears Proof Range Confession Precise Vow Seals Pact

Author:Edmond Rostand

“I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.”

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Author:Johann Lamont

“Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.”

Way Long Enough Young Opinion Modern Promise Band Ultimate Quarters Halfway So Sad Modern Music Halfway There

Author:Alan Vega

“I believe as well that - that American strength is - is essential economic strength, family and value strength, military strength is essential for our own good that these things not only help secure peace for other people but preserve peace for us and - and promise greater prosperity for America.”

People Believe Wells Helping America Values I Believe Greater Economic Military Promise Essentials Prosperity Secure Preserves American Strength

Author:Mitt Romney

“Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.”

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Author:Thomas Frank

“Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.”

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Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

“Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.”

Important Pay Attention Imagine Promise Appreciate Curiosity Pay Attention

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.”

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Author:Vance Havner

“The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.”

Important Values Honor Promise Capacity Keep Moving Forward

Book:Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

Source: Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

“As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."”

May Answers Adventure Tomorrow Gratitude Promise Evening Heartfelt

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.”

Inspiration Promise

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Quality Promise Offers My Friends Finest Friends Forever

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.”

I Can Crazy Promise Girlfriend Exes Ex Girlfriend

Author:Miranda Lambert

“Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.”

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Author:Al Franken

“When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what should be the real liberal agenda: looking at an issue not with orthodoxy, but with open eyes.”

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Author:Owen Gleiberman

“I encourage all of you to find strength within yourself, no matter what. Be proud of who you are and never let anyone or anything take that away from you. Inner Strength is something that we are all born with. However, I've learned that it requires patience and perseverance to fully achieve it. I promise you, though, that as long as you know in your heart who you are and what you want from this world, nothing is gonna stop you.”

“I've been down a long road, but I promise you, it gets better.”

Long Promise Get Better I Promise It Gets Better Long Road

Author:Ronnie Radke

“Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.”

Made Different Matter Faces Party Leader Promise Republican Democrat Significant Significant Change Different Faces

Author:James Morcan

“The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.”

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Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.”

“Barack didn't pledge riches, only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he delivered.”

Would Be Interesting Promise Riches Barack Pledge

Author:Michelle Obama

“Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.”

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Author:Fred Upton

“Amway gets people into a new life of excitement, promise, profit, and hope.”

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Author:Jay Van Andel

“Some promises are better left unsaid”

Left Promise Unsaid

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“And nothing formed against me shall stand. You hold the whole world in Your hands. I'm holding onto Your promises. You are faithful. You are faithful. You are faithful. I know Who goes before me. I know Who stands behind. The God of angel armies is always by my side. The One who reigns forever, He is a Friend of mine. The God of angel armies Is always by my side.”

Knows World Whole Hands Sides Behinds Forever Mines Promise Angel Army Whole World Faithful Reign Holding On

Author:Chris Tomlin

“Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.”

Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

“Be certain that Yasser Arafat’s final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that … the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep.”

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Author:Mohammed Dahlan

“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.”

Thinking Way Made Matter Able Promise Fulfilled

Author:Albert Gubay

“I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.”

Ifs Persons Lost Morning Promise Coffee Get Up Desks Morning Person

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.”

Thinking Way Want I Can Reality Might Sound Becoming Promise Accomplish I Promise Semantics

Author:Maynard Webb

“The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest.”

Eye Magic Mines Promise Ancient Rainbow Hue

Book:Collected Sonnets, Old and New

Source: Collected Sonnets, Old and New

“A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.”

Different Character America Values Social Born Work Movement Promise Majority Traditional 80s Outlook Social Movements

Author:Daniel Yankelovich

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