414 Quotes About Promises

Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them.

Most empty promises are a result of excitement.

I was too familiar with slavery not to know that promises made to slaves, though with kind intentions, and sincere at the time, depend on many contingencies for their fulfillment.

People lie. Promises are broken.That's why as much as it chafed him, Jason followed rules. He kept his promises. He never wanted to abandon anyone the way he'd been abandoned and lied to.

Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.

In this town, white politicians and black ministers seemed to go together like tears and tissues. At election time, the pols got religion and came looking for the blessings of black ministers as a way to get black votes without providing the kinds of services to black communities that they at least promised to East Boston and Charlestown and the other mostly white Boston neighborhoods.

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

Never. I promise you this: they will stay together. They will be safe. My children will be accompanying them to the same home.

God is faithful to His promises and His intentions do not change