Broken Promises Quotes

• It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

  Chief Joseph

  Broken Heart, Sick, Remember

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• Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

  Jonathan Swift

  Broken Heart, Food, Pie

  1738 Polite Conversation.

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  If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Success, Power, Wish

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• Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

  Albert Camus

  Broken Heart, Teacher, Lost Love

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• This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

  John Connolly

  Heart, People, Broken

  John Connolly (2008). “The Unquiet: A Thriller”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't make promises you can't keep.

  Howard Bryant

  Cheating, Keeping Promises, You Cheated

  "Steve Ballmer, Serena Williams Headline The Week In Sports". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 31, 2014.

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• When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

  Edmund Fuller

  Mean, Men, Keeping Promises

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• People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

  Jane Rule

  Broken Heart, People, Choices

  Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.14, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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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, Cost, Kept Promises

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• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Fear, Commitment

  "Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Commitment, Keeping Promises, Enemy

  "Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom".

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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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  The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Keeping Promises

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Faith

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Broken, Promise, Should

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• Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

  Buffalo Bill

  Broken Heart, Government, Progress

  Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Bill Historical Center (1996). “Buffalo Bill Museum”, Buffalo Bill Historical Center

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• I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

  Chief Joseph

  Tired, American Indian, Speak The Truth

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• Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Love, Running, Men

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• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Broken Heart, Dream, Silence

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Faith, Philosophical

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• I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Eggs, Broken

  Peter Pan act 5 (1928)

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• Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Forgiveness, Dream, Children

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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