Top 400 Promising Quotes & Sayings

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

See? Things are already looking promising.

We have to be very realistic as a party as to what we're promising Canadians going into the 2019 election.

You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.

All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you will come back when spring comes again.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

A fatal recovery from a promising illness

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

I kind of do it in my head, then I'll try pieces of it on stage and if it looks promising, I'll put it together.

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

Promising is the eve of giving.

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

I think it's a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we've seen in the past.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.

I have a track record of under-promising and over-delivering, whether it's on the economy, border protection, welfare reforms.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now.

The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

I think always, when you have a candidate promising free stuff, and another promising less stuff or nothing, the one who promises more is always going to have the advantage.

The whole point of what -Jesus was up to was that he was doing close up, in the present, what he was promising long-term in the future. And what he was promising for that future and doing in the present was not saving souls for a disembodied eternity but rescuing -people from the corruption and decay of the way the world presently is so they could enjoy, already in the present, that renewal of creation which is God’s ultimate purpose?—??and so they could thus become colleagues and partners in that large project.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

I have done regional films before. They have a different flavour and promising future.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

I see a big, promising future for India's manufacturing and supply chain part of our company.

As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

We can no longer dwell on the divisive politics of the past but must focus on Georgia's bright and promising future.

The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.

Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

There's so many people who come to me here in L.A., promising me this and promising me that. What I'm learning is figuring out what's real versus what's just talk.

In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capital averages. From large, multi-campus companies to promising start-ups, Silicon Slopes offers a promising climate for businesses. The entire tech industry has its eyes on Utah.

I was a promising keeper as a kid and, at 15 and 16, was on the books of Crewe Alexandra.

One knows their capacity to fulfill promises. It should be taken into account before promising the voters.

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

There's something very interesting about world leaders promising hope and then carrying through on that.

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.

Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.

Any politician promising not to raise your taxes is like a vampire promising to become a vegetarian.

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!

The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children.

Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

You have to be a student of the game to be successful, and it's promising when you can say that, with a world-record performance, I still have things to improve on!