Keeping Your Word Quotes

• Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Leadership, Integrity

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2016

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• You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.

  Sivananda

  Wisdom, Hope, Integrity

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• If you say something and back it up with your actions, you will provide the 'proof' for people who are listening to you, and they will much more willingly follow your lead.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Listening, Action

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 10, 2014

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Broken Promises, Breaking Promises, Precedent

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• Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

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• Your word is your honor. If you say you're going to do something, then you need to do it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Honor, Needs, Your Honor

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2013

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• The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.

  Brian Tracy

  Promise, Cost, Values

  Twitter post from Jun 4, 2013

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• Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

  Harry S. Truman

  Friendship, Best Friend, God

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• You can't be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can't serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can't step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

  Bill Courtney

  Character, Successful, Leader

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

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  Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Smile, Thankful

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 22, 2014

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• I am a man of my word… and that word is “unreliable.

  Demetri Martin

  Men, Unreliable

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• Mama was a stickler on keeping your word. That's helped me to make the right decisions in so many situations. Because of that, I also think really hard before I make a decision because I know I'm going to have to see it through.

  Reba McEntire

  Thinking, Decision, Mama

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you'll have to eat them, you can swallow it well.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Sweet, Cases, Wells

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• Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises.

  Derrick Bell

  Self Esteem, Flower, Promise

  Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.49, A&C Black

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• Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude, Destiny

  "Tiger Heart, Tiger Mind: How to Empower Your Dream". Book by Ron Rubin, Stuart Avery Gold (p. 86), March 15, 2005.

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• What builds character? It's a commitment to integrity, hard work, honor and keeping your word. All of that comes straight out of the Sigma Nu Creed. The guy who wrote that meant it. The whole idea is to think about those words and make them a part of who you are.

  Bill Courtney

  Integrity, Hard Work, Character

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• Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

  Andy Rooney

  Sweet, Cases, Speak Softly

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• Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Lying, Honor, Way

  Mercedes Lackey (2003). “Exile's Honor”, p.88, Penguin

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

  Thomas Fuller

  Keeping Promises, Advice, Broken Promises

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• Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!

  Ted Dekker

  Running, Pain, Fall

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• We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Life Lesson, Hard Work, Mean

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• How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline. "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Trying, Doe

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.111, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What does NOT work best for anyone, though, is being forced to keep a Windows partition around just to play video games. The best operating system for playing games is the one that lets you keep your word processor, instant messenger, email, and music player open in the background while you play. The worst is the one that will force you to shut all that down just to screw around for a few minutes.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Player, Playing Games, Doe

  "Ryan C. Gordon and Michael Simms (3. Ryan C. Gordon - Part II)". Interview with Robin Heggelund Hansen, www.tek.no. March 10, 2009.

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• Always keep your words soft and sweet. You never know when you'll have to eat them. Always remember, as you go out to seek your fortune, your fame, your fulfillment, always remember that it's not who you know in this world, it's whom.

  Osborn Elliott

  Sweet, Who You Know, World

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