Promises Quotes
1151 quotes by 822 authors
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When in comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.
— George Carlin
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Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined…
— Leland Stanford
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The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.
— Matthew Henry
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Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and…
— William Gurnall
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God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and…
— Richard Sibbes
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Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they…
— Chief Joseph
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... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
— Zebulon Pike
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Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not plan to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good…
— Susan Ward
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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever…
— Adolf Hitler
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I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
— William Booth
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I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to…
— Andrew Jackson
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come…
— Helen Prejean
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Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair,…
— Ban Ki-moon
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It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just.…
— Cesar Chavez
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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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