Keeping Quotes

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

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

People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

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

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

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

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

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

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

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

Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

Keeping quiet and letting the others do the talking. That may be Angela Merkel's method, but it's not mine.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.

Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

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.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

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

Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

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

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

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.

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

Keeping a journal implies hope.

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

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

Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

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

I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.