Promise Quotes

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  Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Never promise more than you can perform.

  Publilius Syrus

  Commitment, Accountability, Proactive

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 528, 1856.

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• Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Commitment, Reality

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Keeping Promises

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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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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  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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  A promise made is a debt unpaid.

  Robert W. Service

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  Songs of a Sourdough (1907) "Cremation of Sam McGee"

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• People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.

  Leon Brown

  People, Broken, Should

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• Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.

  George Washington

  Be Careful, Careful

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.414

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

  Chief Joseph

  Broken Heart, Sick, Broken Promises

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Success, Power, Broken Promises

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

  Aeschylus

  Believe, Men, Keeping Promises

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

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• The future is as bright as the promise of God.

  William Carey

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• If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Littles, Break, Bigs

  Joe Penhall, Cormac McCarthy (2014). “The Road”, p.13, A&C Black

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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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• Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

  Simone Weil

  Beauty, Pretty Girl, Giving

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.29, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

  Ovid

  Keeping Promises, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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• I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

  Isabel Allende

  Peace, Working Together, Empowering Women

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• At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beauty, Literature, Fifteen

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Summer, Winter, Keeping Promises

  "Chicago Daily News" Newspaper, February 20, 1958.

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• There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?

  Jodi Picoult

  Hands, Enemy, Purpose

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

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• Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Secret, Literature, Drink

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• If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

  Brett Favre

  Nfl, Best Football, Ifs

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

  Dick Gregory

  Marriage, Political, Voters

  Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”

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• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Beauty, Past, Beautiful Women

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.31, Reprint Services Corporation

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