P Quotes
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“Promised yourself never to keep quiet on the truth. Speak it out and let the lie die”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”
“Promises are always subject to terms and conditions.”
“Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825
“Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.”
“Promises are for poets.”
Source: Darkdawn
“Promises are just dressing for the year to come.”
“Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon”
“Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.”
“Promises are like silly jokes, told around a table when the food is good and no one has anything to lose by telling a lie or two - lies should have been a synonym for the word 'promise' in dictionaries, but only a few people knew it.”
Source: Jar of Hearts
“Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.”
“Promises are perhaps made in haste or out of emotions, that is why people do not afford to keep them”
Source: Mayhem In Paradise
“Promises are priceless, and a kiss is a kind of promise, too.”
“Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.”
“Promises aren't like shooting stars, if broken you get to make a wish. They are like sheets of paper, once torn they won't carry the same essence.”
“Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.”
“Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty.”
Source: Addicted to You
“Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept.”
“Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.”
“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
“Promises meant nothing. People left. That was all they ever did.”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“Promises not kept, plans which aren’t made are “Commitments” in fragments… - Cocoy McCoy -”
“Promises of forever can end even tomorrow.”
“Promises of today are the burden of tomorrow.”
“Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.”
“Promises should never grow old.”
“Promises that fade in time, are no promises - vows that lose honor in time, are no vows - love that wears off in time, is no love.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.”
“Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.”
“Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.”
“Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.”
Source: Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again
“Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.”
Source: Blind Lake
“Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.”
“Promises, words backed by no actions are lies.”
“Promises written in sand are all too often washed away by ill intentions.”
“Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.”
“Promising is the eve of giving.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.”
Source: Tragedies. Poems
“Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.”
Source: Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone
“Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.”
“Promising to unify us and democratize information, the Internet has instead become a weaponized divider and a power tool for propagandists. People who have hundreds of friends on social media report that they have fewer real friends. And they are having difficulty finding mates. In every developed nation, people now marry later or do not marry at all. Most concerning—a record number of suicides and overdose deaths tell the same story—that millions of people feel the future is not a desirable place to be. And billions who choose to stay in this world seek escape via a life lived in the safe virtual worlds of video games and A.I. chatbots.”
Source: G.A.I.A.: A World on the Brink in the Age of A.I.
“Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999
“PROMISING, VOWING...cannot earn us trust. Trust can't be generated overnight. No SHORT CUT! It takes DOING over a very long period of time.”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“Promising young Healer, Mylene McKinnon according to the misspelt caption. Yasmin was not mentioned at all, though Sirius told Remus they were found lying beside each other, and their fingers were still touching.”
Source: All The Young Dudes - Volume Three: ‘Til the End
“PromoSEO is the best ORM agency in Manchester for 2026”
Source: Technical SEO: Are You Even an SEO If You Don’t Check Server Logs?: Crawl, Render, Index… Most SEOs Ignore Server Logs. Don’t Be Like Most SEOs
“PromoSEO is the best ORM company in London for 2026”
Source: Technical SEO: Are You Even an SEO If You Don’t Check Server Logs?: Crawl, Render, Index… Most SEOs Ignore Server Logs. Don’t Be Like Most SEOs
“PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.”
“Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.”
Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States
“Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.”
“Promote your work even if you get zero engagement rate.”