Home / Topics / Promise Quotes

Promise Quotes

Browse 3696 quotes about Promise.

Promise Quotes

“I can promise you. If you work 12 hours, I will work for 13. If you work 14 hours, I will work for 15 hours. Why? Because I am not a ‘pradhan mantri’, but a ‘pradhan sevak’.”

Ifs I Can Hours Powerful Promise

Author:Narendra Modi

“This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.”

“Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).”

Thinking Mind Humans Ideas Values Powerful Consciousness Revolution Promise Paper Ethics Impact Subjective Examination Cognitive Human Values

Author:Roger Wolcott Sperry

“Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.”

Ifs Mind Justice Powerful Promise Conscience Angry Rewards Endure Busy Ministers Most Powerful Submit Farewell Offended Tranquil Reproof

Author:Mary Wortley Montagu

“I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.”

Law Community Powerful Promise Reform I Promise Above The Law

Author:Andrew Thomas

“The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.”

World Powerful Promise Most Powerful Belonging Narcotics

Author:Kalle Lasn

“The new book is amazing. It's called, The Pleiadian Promise. I get emotional when I just connect to it, because it's really an amazing, powerful, powerful piece of work.”

Book Powerful Pieces Emotional Promise New Books

Author:Christine McCormick Day

“Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they were after the Second World War. There were fewer governments then, but they actually had more political power.”

World War Facts Government Political Powerful Promise Democratic Dues War Of The Worlds Fewer Second World War Delivering Political Power Democratic Government

Author:Mary Robinson

“Capitalism is a powerful producer of output, crisis-mongering on the left notwithstanding, and this too makes the system seem to have a lot of promise. This is why it is so important to agitate against the system in good times and bad. We can't depend on some super crisis to get folks thinking but instead have to focus on all of the contradictions of the system which cannot be ultimately resolved by it.”

Thinking Important Seems Left Powerful Focus Depends Promise Capitalism Crisis Folks Producers Contradiction Good Times Output Agitate

Author:Michael Yates

“After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.”

Years Care Law Powerful Land Century Promise Vote Strive Debate Reform Health Care Historic Health Care Reform

Author:Barack Obama

“To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.”

Made Powerful Promise Died Chosen Handshake

Book:Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel

“Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.”

“We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.”

Thinking Way Play Use Political Order Wealth Powerful Groups Promise Taxes Illusion Weakness Clever Tricks Psychological Way Of Thinking Brokenness Political Groups

Book:Finding Peace

Source: Finding Peace