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Broken Promises Quotes

1.
If you wish to be a success in the world,
promise everything,
deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want to be triumphant in life, make grandiose promises but fail to follow through.
Authors on Broken Promises Quotes: Barack Obama Thomas Fuller Chief Joseph Anthony Eden Howard Bryant Nelson Algren Abigail Adams Sarah McLachlan Quintilian Edmund Burke Kelly Miller Benjamin Franklin E. W. Howe William Osler Henry Adams Napoleon Bonaparte Willie Aames Charlotte Bronte John F. Kennedy Hannah Arendt Patti Davis Sally Field Buffalo Bill Mary Hart Ovid Paul Ekman Victoria Woodhull
2.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke

3.
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
John F. Kennedy

4.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
Chief Joseph

5.
If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.
Anthony Eden

6.
I've never had my heart broken.
Sally Field

7.
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
Buffalo Bill

8.
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.
Kelly Miller

9.
It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.
Willie Aames

10.
Don't make promises you can't keep.
Howard Bryant

11.
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
Chief Joseph

12.
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.
Patti Davis

13.
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
William Osler

14.
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Benjamin Franklin

15.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller

16.
A broken promise is not a lie.
Paul Ekman

17.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
Hannah Arendt

18.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.
Charlotte Bronte

19.
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
Victoria Woodhull

20.
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry Adams

21.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
E. W. Howe

22.
If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.
Barack Obama

23.
Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
Sarah McLachlan

24.
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
Nelson Algren

25.
Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.
Thomas Fuller

26.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams

27.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Ovid

28.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian

29.
I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.
Barack Obama

30.
My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.
Barack Obama

31.
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.
Mary Hart

32.
Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.
Barack Obama

33.
I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.
Barack Obama