Quotes about Promise

Mom had promised to stay clean as long as I was a good enough son to make it worth her while.

You can pretty well summarize the first three habits with the expression "make and keep a promise." And you can pretty well summarize the next three habits with the expression "involve others in the problem and work out the solution together.

Keeping a commitment or a promise is a major deposit; breaking one is a major withdrawal. In fact, there's probably not a more massive withdrawal than to make a promise that's important to someone and then not to come through. The next time a promise is made, they won't believe it. People tend to build their hopes around promises, particularly promises about their basic livelihood.

The power to make and keep commitments to ourselves is the essence of developing the basic habits of effectiveness.

I just can't seem to keep a promise I make to myself.

Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It's our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to "walk our talk

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love.

When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable.

That's the fullness of God's salvation. It's not only deliverance from something but also deliverance to something. He not only delivers us from sin, but he also delivers us into a land of salvation that's flowing with milk and honey.