Promise Quotes

"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further."
-Werner Von Braun

"Promise is most given when the least is said."
-George Chapman

"God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage."
-Bulgarian Proverb

"For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves, ... This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise."
-Carl Sagan

"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."
-Bill Cosby

"Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery."
-Betty Friedan

"Formula for success: under promise and over deliver."
-Tom Peters

"A promise must never be broken."
-Alexander Hamilton

"If they give themselves up without force within one month maximum from the date of this speech, we can promise them that they are going to be safe."
-Prince Abdullah

"In 2000, following Barry's murder, the Pentagon announced it would take concrete steps to curb anti-gay harassment in our military and to hold accountable those who harass and condone harassment. Nearly six years later, Pentagon leaders have failed to keep their promise. The time has come for them to do just that, or for Congress to hold them accountable if they do not."
-Patricia Kutteles

"We strongly believe that our union with Guidant is the only one that can deliver on that promise, and create lasting value for shareholders of both companies."
-William Weldon

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
-Nikita Khrushchev

"I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you."
-Jake Gyllenhaal

"When I scored the two goals I was very fit and now I'm coming back, so I can't promise to score two goals."
-Didier Drogba

"We promise you a sporting contest, but we have enjoyed having this trophy in Europe for the last two years, and it is our intention to take it back home next Monday."
-Bernhard Langer

"That's the promise of XML, but there's still a lot of work to be done."
-Nancy Lee

"Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river."
-Nikita Khrushchev

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."
-James Allen

"Shes an incredibly multi-talented performer whose comedic skills and energy promise to deliver an Emmy Awards broadcast to remember."
-Nina Tassler

"No cause of action arises from a bare promise."
-Legal Maxim

"In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change."
-Mark Sanford

"...in God's name I command you to let me know as soon as you are aware of the arrival of Fastolf; because if he should pass without my knowledge, I promise you that I will have [your] head removed."
-Joan of Arc

"We again will be able to host great games without any cost to local taxpayers. We also promise a bid that will be distinctive in its approach compared to previous games."
-Barry Sanders

"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I promise you we will make films that entertain you the moment the lights go down. We're making Disney the one place you have to work (as an animator)."
-John Lasseter

"Summer is when audiences expect us to deliver excitement. Some movies just didn't fulfill that promise."
-Jeff Blake

"We will try not to over-promise and we will deliver."
-Richard Parsons