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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)

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