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Kept Promises Quotes
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams
“Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.”
“Promise is most given when the least is said.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations
“When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.”
Source: The Collected Works
“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.”
“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.”
Source: The Portable Machiavelli
“The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.”
“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”
“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”
Source: Invisible Monsters
“Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.”
“Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”
“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
Source: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)
“Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.”
“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
“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.”
“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
“The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.”
“Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.”
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.”
Source: Management
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...”
“When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.”
Source: A Man For All Seasons
“If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”
“He was ever precise in promise-keeping.”
Source: Measure for Measure