Keeping Promises Quotes

Keeping Promises Quote of the day

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Private victories precede public victories.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.