Promise Quotes (726 Quotes)

Although the quarter (for CNH) was a disappointment, the outlook shows some promise.

The Make Poverty History coalition came together for a special year of opportunity. The political decisions made would not have been made without their passionate commitment. If governments follow through on their promises, millions of lives that would have been lost could now be saved.

By breaking his own promises, Chen is attempting to stir up the secessionist sentiments in Taiwan and create confrontations between different groups of people in the island, as well as to provoke the mainland and strain the cross-Straits relations.

We got better each day. We became a more disciplined team. Our effort level increased. We have a lot of promise here. I'm not quite sure we're going to go away any time soon.

I don't know why they would make a promise and offload a 1,246 bill on students and families.

I made a promise so it was something I carried out instinctively, ... Anyone with a big heart would have done the same.

The mother mourns, but does not fail,
Her courage and her love prevail
O'er sorrow, and her spirit hears
The promise of triumphant years.

I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.

The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing . . .

Now we're seeing services and applications. This has been one of the promises the Internet has offered for a long time -- the consumer can really be the programmer.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

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

We don't require our astronomers to explore the heavens with 19th century telescopes, and we don't require our geologists to study the Earth with a tape measure. If we are serious about realizing the promise of stem cell research, our biomedical researchers need access to the best stem cell lines available.

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.

Amid huge expectations, Crosby has delivered on his promise. He leads the Penguins and all NHL rookies with 19 points. Each night I'm focusing myself to play at this level, ... For me it's a matter of making sure that I push myself to raise my game to play here.

Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the Tower of Babel by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

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.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

The thing is that we didn't put our heads down and die. We kept on battling. They didn't get the goals. If we didn't keep fighting, then someone knocks it in off the post. That shows some promise. The play will come with time.

We're going to do what we think is best. What we did against Oakland may or may not be what we think is best against Carolina. Last year we played Indianapolis in one type of a defense. We played Pittsburgh in another type of a defense. We played Philadelphia in another type of a defense. We're going to do what we think we need to do to try to match up and stop the opponents. I'm not making any promises to anything or anybody about what we're going to do.

It seems that despite our efforts the rescission will stand, very sadly, and that is something of a promise broken, ... We will try hard in the coming weeks, but ultimately Congress will have something of a black eye over this.

The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow.

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

It is a promise of quality and a licence to charge more money for your product -- very often it is the most important asset of a company.

The U.S. must remain accountable for the promise under the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty it made to clean up Pueblo Chemical. The people of Pueblo deserve no less.

I doubt that would hold a lot of promise for us. Kids are forming their personalities.

I want to say to the president elect of Chile, we're going to be a firm and constructive opposition. It's a promise to our country.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Enough Italians feel worse off than they did five years ago. He didn't fulfill his promises.

I see nothing but greatness ahead for him and therefore it made sense for all of us. There's no question that Rudy will fulfill the promise of those people who draft him. He's got every attribute. He's bright, he's a wonderful person, incredibly well raised and he's just a tremendously, tremendously talented young guy.

As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

The promise was I was going to do a Lambeau Leap into the glass, but I got so wrapped up in the moment, I didn't know what I was doing out there.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

These are the first direct presidential elections in our history ... In such a situation, words and promises are not enough,

Canadians have been left wondering whatever happened to the promise shown by the health plan,

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

When we ran for Student Government last year, we ran on a higher education reform. This campaign is our answer to some of the promises that we made.

It's incredibly exciting to be collaborating with Steven Spielberg, ... He shares our vision for the potential of the medium and has the passion and creativity to help us finally deliver on the promise that a game can not only engage and compel you with i

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

This is a great job. The best job I've ever had. Because I go to work for the people of New Mexico everyday. And I've tried to follow a few simple lessons to serve the people well. Be bold. Never fail to act. Keep your promises. And make a difference.

a courageous fighter for working families a voice for the elderly a champion of all who have been left out, or locked out, of America's promise.

We are seeing more and more folks coming into our office seeking services, people who have come to this country for something better and the promise of assistance. But when they come here, they are expected to prostitute, or they're expected to sell drugs.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Forty-eight years ago a museum and a 3,000-acre park was promised to Northern Kentucky. However, much of the area remains largely hidden and a promise unfulfilled.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

What our experiment demonstrates is a fundamental principle of how the brain pays attention. The promise here is that because we are doing this in owls, we can get at the mechanisms of how this works.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back Why all that pain. again. and you, such a fighter you fought me over and over with tears and words and promises. you fought for me with honesty and a light so bright it hurts my heart. sweet lorna. at peace now finally no more battles, just light from within a flickering candle in the dark burns with you.