Breaking Promises Quotes

• 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 politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Keeping Promises, Yesterday, Political

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• We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Betrayal, Keeping Promises

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.444, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• 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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• Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Mirrors, Broken, Bleeding

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “Promise Me”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil 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.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Mean, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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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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• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Hypocrisy, Broken Promises, Cost

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

  Hal Borland

  Spring, Keeping Promises, May

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• Let God's promises shine on your problems.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, Godly, Shine On

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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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• He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Sleep, Dark

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.527, Bantam

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

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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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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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Commitment, Keeping Promises, Broken Promises

  "Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom".

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• The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

  William Lyon Mackenzie

  Keeping Promises, Yesterday, Kept Promises

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• Better a broken promise than none at all.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Commitment, Broken

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.383, Courier Corporation

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• I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Broken Promises, Debt

  "Massive government debt becoming key issue in 2012 race". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Blue, America, Broken Promises

  "Obama misled with 'hope and change'" by Reince Priebus, www.politico.com. April 03, 2012.

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• When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

  Robert Bolt

  Men, Self, Hands

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.87, A&C Black

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• One promises much, to avoid giving little.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Keeping Promises, Generosity, Giving

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• Deliver more than you promise.

  Patricia Ryan

  Keeping Promises, Promise, Kept Promises

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