Keeping Promises Quotes

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

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

Private victories precede public victories.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

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

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

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

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

Deliver more than you promise.

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

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

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

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

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

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

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.

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

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

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

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

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.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

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.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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