Promise Quotes

“But a promise is a promise, not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care. It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“A High Grade’s words have weight; she must now think through what leaves her lips.”
― Misba, The Oldest Dance

“It's Harvest Time.
Jewish New Year.
Back to School.
The new theatrical season.
These are September to me.

Apples and honey,
sharpened pencils
and the sounds of warm-ups,
voices and bodies getting going.
Hope and promise
and things re-newed.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Sometimes I wish we could start off old and get younger as we go," he said. "What would happen then?" I asked. "I guess we would both look old right now," he said. I could not imagine either of us looking old. "I wish someone would promise me that nothing is meaningless," he said. "I wish there were promises worth believing in. That after we have been hunted and lonely and anxious and living in fear, there is something else. Considering the way we are living right now, if we were young at the end of our lives instead, then maybe our dreams could come true.”
― Shin Kyung-sook, I'll Be Right There

“A sunset is only half of the story.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What is the act of love if not bold?
As the world comes apart, nothing to lose-
What is love if not a promise to go on?”
― Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land

“Mark this, my son: all people fall into sin.
But sinning, they are not for ever lost
Hapless and helpless, who can make amends
And has not set their face against repentance.
Only a fool is governed by self-will.”
― Sophocles

“This isn’t … it isn’t a trick, is it?” Her voice was smaller than she wanted it to be.

The shadow of something dark moved across Kaz’s face. “If it were a trick, I’d promise you safety. I’d offer you happiness. I don’t know if that exists in the Barrel, but you’ll find none of it with me.”

For some reason, those words had comforted her. Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“The promise touches your face softly and wraps itself gently around you, planting a seed of hope in your heart.”
― Shirley Marr, A Glasshouse of Stars

“My goal for writing is to touch your heart and tickle your funny bone, while leaving you with a promise of hope in your life and, therefore, in this world.”
― Linda Hughes

“And so the seasons turn, leaving the parting season holding out the sure and certain promise of the one to come. And if we are sufficiently naïve to refuse to relinquish the season that is passing, we will completely forfeit the promise of the one for which the passing season existed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Never make a promise if you don’t have intention to keep it. You never know how it could ruin someone’s life.”
― sophieya

“A promise to a dead man is sacred!”
― Christophe Chabouté, Alone

“My youthful heart still holds the buoyancy of promise. Even though it is scarred by the ravages of time, there is still hope and possibilities to explore.”
― Andrew Pacholyk, Barefoot ~ A Surfer's View of the Universe

“The emotion between the two young lovers was a sweet tang in the air. It coated his tongue, and he licked his lips, eager for more. He shared their excitement and hope, and though he had promised himself he wouldn’t watch their love again, that promise went ignored.”
― Kristin L Hamblin, Fated Born

“Praise God for his precious promises.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“last night
you had a visitor;

the promise of
a brand new chapter
left her
fingerprints
all over your
awareness
for you to CSI
and hack the
code of hope.”
― Remy Alberi, The Comprehension Watch

“It's hard to see, let alone understand, the promise of 'forever', but in the eyes of love, even 'eternity' isn't long enough.”
― James M Stoffel, Jr

“This whole conundrum reminds me of that kids' game, "Which would you rather?" Which would you rather: Have your nose torn off by a grizzly or have a lungworm burrow through your eyeball? Have genital leprosy or elephantiasis of the face? Spend the rest of your life alone in a magnificent mansion or live in an overflowing outhouse with Beyonce?
Which would I rather: Tell the truth and break a solemn promise to my comatose friend -- or lie and lose the only girl who ever looked at me like I wasn't some idioot flapdrol? It's a game I can't win.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“One of the promises that the world has given us is the promise that a promise is never a promise.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Even them that knew better what say those things, just the same; rebuilt his story like a shabby house with good bones. A bit of plaster, a splash of paint; the crags and breaks are filled---the shadows have no hollow place to fall. That's how it goes. The good fills in the cracks. And from a distance it's all new and light and promise.”
― Allie Ray, Holler

“I had forgotten that things might change in future and that promise was a debt.”
― Amos Tutuola, Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty

“There is a promising idea that I will be spending the rest of my life figuring out my Self.”
― Helen Edwards, Nothing Sexier Than Freedom

“it would be important to me."
There it was, the sentence from which there was no defense. In my family, when you asked a favor of someone, it was acceptable to refuse. But once the person said that it was important to them, it crossed the line and became an absolute imperative. We did not use those words frivolously, and they carried an awesome weight.
"Then I'll do it.”
― David Rosenfelt, Open and Shut

“Wedding vows, in any culture or language, speak of being together in sickness and in health. There is an assumption that you will receive love and thrive in the constant presence and support of the person with whom you are joined together in matrimony, no matter the weather or circumstance. By committing to spending your life together, you are promising one thing: to be around.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“We are the new people,
Born of elevated rock and lifted branches,
Called Americans,
Not to mouth the label but to live the reality,
Not to stop anywhere, to respond to man,
To outgrow each wider limitation,
Growing towards the universal Human Being;
And we are the old people, witnesses
That behind us there extends
An unbroken chain of ancestors,
Ourselves linked with all who ever lived.
Joined with all future generations;
Of millions of fathers through as many years
We are the breathing receptacles.”
― Jean Toomer

“Work your garden diligently. For the fruit will feed you today and the seeds hold the promise of being fed tomorrow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you can’t keep a promise, don’t make it.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences. — Wendell Berry”
― Wendell Berryll

“I often wonder what it will take for me to finally understand that every promise that does not come from God was broken before it was ever sent.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough