Promises Quotes
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. - Niccolo Machiavelli
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. - Michelangelo
God never made a promise that was too good to be true. - Dwight L. Moody
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned. - Ovid
He loses his thanks who promises and delays. - Proverb
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. - Ruckett
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. - Herbert Agar
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Promise is most given when the least is said. - George Chapman
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. - Thomas Fuller
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. - Carl Jung
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. - Anonymous.
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. - Arabian Proverb.
Life didn't promise to be wonderful. - Teddy Pendergrass.
But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep...- Robert Frost.
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. - Simone Weil.
Promise is most given when the least is said.- George Chapman.
I promise to cherish you and your love I promise to compromise with you…- Sponge Bob, I Promise.
I promise you a love everlasting.- Sponge Bob, I Promise.
I promise to love you without change.- Sponge Bob, I Promise.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.- John Lennon.
If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket.- Matthew White.
You must do me this honor...promise me now, and never let go of that promise.- Leonardo Di Caprio, Titanic.
Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver. - Anonymous.
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.- Friedrich Nietzsche.
Better a broken promise than none at all.- Mark Twain.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. -- Norman Vincent Peale.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.-- Thomas Fuller.
When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. -- Proverb.
A promise must never be broken.-- Alexander Hamilton.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.-Robert Frost
There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.-Paul Castellano
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.-Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.-John McCarthy
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.-Red Cloud
This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.-Solomon Ortiz
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.-Thomas Fuller
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.-Martha Gellhorn
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.-James L. Buckley
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.-Peter Drucker
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.-Bernard Baruch
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.-Ernest Istook
What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.-Peter Garrett
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.-Hermann Broch
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.-Joe Slovo
When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?-Eva Braun
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.-Barbara Mikulski
Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.-Sherrod Brown
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!-Mary Douglas
You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.-Fred Thompson
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.-Chief Joseph
Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.-Anthony Hitt
Let God's promises shine on your problems.-Corrie Ten Boom
Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.-Arianna Huffington
Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.-Morgan Freeman
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.-Denis Waitley
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.-Mason Cooley
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.-Ray Davies
One promises much, to avoid giving little.-Marquis De Vauvenargues
Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.-Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.-Allen Boyd
Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.-Arthur Levitt
Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.-Barbara Mikulski
Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.-Mark Kennedy
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.-Dick Gregory
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.-Jonathan Swift
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.-Norman Vincent Peale
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.-Hannah Arendt
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.-Francis Marion
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.-Delphine de Girardin