Keeping Promises Quotes - Page 2

• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Commitment, Accomplishment

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.123, Routledge

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• Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Witty, Business

  'The Idler' no. 40 (20 January 1759)

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

  Hal Borland

  Spring, May, Kept Promises

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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, Broken, Literature

  "At 500, Machiavelli's 'Prince' Still Inspires Love And Fear" by Sylvia Poggioli, www.npr.org. May 27, 2013.

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• Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

  Norman Douglas

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• One promises much, to avoid giving little.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Generosity, Giving, Broken Promises

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• Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

  Bernard Baruch

  Disappointment, Freedom, Political

  In Meyer Berger New York (1960)

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• The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Mean, Self

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• It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Personality, Trying

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.49, Mango Media Inc.

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• Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

  John Green

  Love, Real, People

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

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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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• A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Art Of War, Broken Promises

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.95, Penguin

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• If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

  Barack Obama

  Obamacare, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

  "Hannity breaks down the ObamaCare 'disaster'; Assange shares advice for Democratic Party". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 04, 2017.

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• Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

  William Hazlitt

  Commitment, People, Broken Promises

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• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Graduation, Dream

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• And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Doctors, People

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• Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

  Ovid

  Broken Promises, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Yesterday, Political, Kept Promises

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

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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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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• Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Summer, Winter, June

  "Chicago Daily News" Newspaper, February 20, 1958.

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• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• Now he found out a new thing--namely, that 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.

  Mark Twain

  World, Body, Want

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Will Rogers

  Acceptance, Greed, Political

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

  Thomas Fuller

  Advice, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

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