Keeping Promises Quotes

• 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.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Thinking, Break, Knows

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.221, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Reality, Expectations

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.241, Mango Media Inc.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Commitment, Broken Promises, Enemy

  "Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom".

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  Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Integrity

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

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Baby, Funny Life, Broken Promises

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• Don't make promises you can't keep.

  Howard Bryant

  Cheating, Broken Promises, You Cheated

  "Steve Ballmer, Serena Williams Headline The Week In Sports". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 31, 2014.

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• Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Faith, Philosophical

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• Deliver more than you promise.

  Patricia Ryan

  Promise, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

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• Love is keeping the promise anyway.

  John Green

  Life, Love Is, Fault In Our Stars

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.42, Penguin

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• We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Betrayal, Deception

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.444, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Inspirational, Funny, Trust

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

  Aeschylus

  Believe, Men, Broken Promises

  "Fragment 385". Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.

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

  John Green

  Romantic, Stars, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.42, Penguin

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• Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

  Hannah Arendt

  Broken Promises, Kept Promises, Way

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Private victories precede public victories.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Victory, Relationships With Others

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Fear, Commitment

  "Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Past, Broken, Literature

  "At 500, Machiavelli's 'Prince' Still Inspires Love And Fear" by Sylvia Poggioli, www.npr.org. May 27, 2013.

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• It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  Karl Popper

  Paradise On Earth, Kept Promises, Hell

  "In Passing: Condolences and Complaints on Death, Dying, and Related Disappointments". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 144, 2005.

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

  David Brinkley

  Mean, Moon, Space

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

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Failure, Expectations

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.216

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• Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

  Thomas Fuller

  Advice, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

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

  Thomas Fuller

  Nice, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

  "An Introduction to Prudence".

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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

  Robert Bolt

  Men, Self, Hands

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.87, A&C Black

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