Quotes About Promises I

Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.


Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb



Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. ~Bernard M. Baruch


Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb


Nothing weights lighter than a promise. ~German Proverb


A promise made is a debt unpaid. ~Robert Service



A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb


He was ever precise in promise-keeping. ~William Shakespeare


An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. ~William Dean Howells


Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ~Denis Waitley


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


For every promise, there is price to pay. ~Jim Rohn


The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. ~William Lyon MacKenzie


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


Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~Edgar Watson Howe


We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld


When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then - he needn't hope to find himself again. ~Robert Bolt


Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ~Norman Douglas


Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. ~Norman Vincent Peale


He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb


Promise is most given when the least is said. ~George Chapman


Oaths are but words, and words but wind. ~Samuel Butler


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


Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb


One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes. ~Friedrich Nietzsche