Promises Quotes
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Oaths are but words, and words but wind. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
See the Gospel Church secure, And founded on a Rock! All her promises are sure; Her bulwarks who can shock? Count her every precious shrine; Tell, to after-ages tell, Fortified by power divine, The Church can never fail. (Quote by - Charles Wesley)
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. (Quote by - Bernard M. Baruch)
When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. (Quote by - Proverb)
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. (Quote by - German Proverb)
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. (Quote by - Dutch Proverb)
A promise is a comfort for a fool. (Quote by - Proverb)
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain (Quote by - the equality of all men. (Quote by - Ignazio Silone)
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then - he needn't hope to find himself again. (Quote by - Robert Bolt)
April is a promise that May is bound to keep. (Quote by - Hal Borland)
If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible. (Quote by - O. Hallesby)
Promise little and do much. (Quote by - Hebrew Proverb)
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. (Quote by - George Washington )
God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine. (Quote by - David Nicholas)
Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ. (Quote by - Moliere)
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. (Quote by - Sydney J. Harris)
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. (Quote by - Nikita Khrushchev)
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. (Quote by - William Penn)
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
When a man takes an oath he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then - he needn't hope to find himself again. (Quote by - Robert Bolt)
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Let God's promises shine on your problems. (Quote by - Corrie Ten Boom)
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. (Quote by - Fareed Zakaria)
A promise made is a debt unpaid. (Quote by - Robert Service)
You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own. (Quote by - Mark Caine)
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. (Quote by - Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld)
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. (Quote by - Gaelic Proverb)
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
He loses his thanks who promises and delays. (Quote by - Proverb)
All promise outruns performance. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
One promises much, to avoid giving little. (Quote by - Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Life didn't promise to be wonderful. (Quote by - Teddy Pendergrass)
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results. (Quote by - E. M. Bounds)
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit. (Quote by - Frances Marion)
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. (Quote by - William Dean Howells)
Nothing weights lighter than a promise. (Quote by - German Proverb)
Keep your promises to yourself. (Quote by - David Harold Fink)
It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present. (Quote by - J. A. Spender)
God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer. (Quote by - Matthew Henry)
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. (Quote by - Karl Popper)
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. (Quote by - William Lyon MacKenzie)
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
A promise is a debt. (Quote by - Proverb)
A liar is always lavish of oaths. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. (Quote by - Norman Douglas)
For every promise, there is price to pay. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Oaths are the fossils of piety. (Quote by - George Santayana)
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
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. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
Eggs and oaths are easily broken. (Quote by - Danish Proverb)
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. (Quote by - Peter F. Drucker)
Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. (Quote by - Ruckett)
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality. (Quote by - Harold Geneen)
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
He was ever precise in promise-keeping. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
