Promise Quotes - Page 5

• Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

  William Penn

  Wise, Wisdom, Keeping Promises

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Good Memories, Made

  Ann Brashares (2007). “Summers of the Sisterhood”, Corgi Childrens

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• Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

  Kristin Hannah

  Impression

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.685, Ballantine Books

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• Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

  Herbert

  Faith, Clever, Civilization

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• As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

  Marlo Thomas

  Success, Children, Father

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• It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

  William Bennett

  Character, Government, Support

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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, Keeping Promises, Broken Promises

  "An Introduction to Prudence".

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• A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Art Of War, Keeping Promises

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.95, Penguin

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• If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

  H. L. Mencken

  Political, Missionary, Debt

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• Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, War, Bird

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• The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

  Michelangelo

  Happiness, Success, Hope

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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, Keeping Promises, Broken

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

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• Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Achievement, Faithful, Matter

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• An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Reality, Accumulation

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

  Bernard Baruch

  Disappointment, Freedom, Keeping Promises

  In Meyer Berger New York (1960)

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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, Keeping Promises

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• It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

  Alfred de Musset

  Forget, Easy, Alas

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• One promises much, to avoid giving little.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Keeping Promises, Generosity, Giving

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

  Hannah Arendt

  Future, Commitment, Keeping Promises

  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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• April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

  Hal Borland

  Spring, Keeping Promises, May

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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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• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Mistake

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Kindness, Doctors

  Cities of the Plain Pt I, Ch. 1,'My Social Life'

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• All promise outruns performance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Commitment, Performances, Outrun

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