Broken Promises Quotes

If you wish to be a success in the world,
promise everything,
deliver nothing.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

I've never had my heart broken.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

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

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

A broken promise is not a lie.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

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

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

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

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

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

I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.