Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
Deliver more than you promise.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Private victories precede public victories.
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.
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
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