The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.
If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.
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.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
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