Keeping Promises Quotes

• I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Thinking, Break, Knows

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.221, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Reality, Expectations

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.241, Mango Media Inc.

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Commitment, Broken Promises, Enemy

  "Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom".

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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, Broken Promises

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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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  Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Integrity

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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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• Don't make promises you can't keep.

  Howard Bryant

  Cheating, Broken 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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• Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Kept Promises, Surrender

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Betrayal, Deception

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

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• Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

  Hannah Arendt

  Broken Promises, Kept Promises, Way

  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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• The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

  William Lyon Mackenzie

  Yesterday, Kept Promises, Today

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• Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

  William Penn

  Wise, Wisdom, Kept Promises

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Gossip

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

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• Deliver more than you promise.

  Patricia Ryan

  Promise, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

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• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Inspirational, Funny, Trust

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is keeping the promise anyway.

  John Green

  Life, Love Is, Fault In Our Stars

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.42, Penguin

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• Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

  John Green

  Romantic, Stars, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.42, Penguin

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• It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

  Aeschylus

  Believe, Men, Broken Promises

  "Fragment 385". Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.

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• Private victories precede public victories.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Victory, Relationships With Others

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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

  Edmund Fuller

  Mean, Men, Broken Promises

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• Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

  E. W. Howe

  People, Broken Promises, Half

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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, Broken 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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• Promise is most given when the least is said.

  George Chapman

  Kept Promises, Said, Given

  George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations”, p.98

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• It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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