Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.
Marilyn vos Savant

Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke

Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.
Donald Cargill

But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.
Sue Kelly

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
Ken Hill

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.
Ruben Hinojosa

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.
David McNally

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
Maria Cantwell

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

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 Lane Allen

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
Walter Lang

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.
Helen Thomas

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Karl Rahner

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
Charles Wesley

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.
Delia Smith

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe