Quotes on promises
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
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Bernard M. Baruch Quotes
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
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Robert Service Quotes
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
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Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
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Pierre Corneille Quotes
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.
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Harold Geneen Quotes
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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Denis Waitley Quotes
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
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Nikita Khrushchev Quotes
A promise is a comfort for a fool.
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Proverb Quotes
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
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Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Aeschylus Quotes
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
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Ring Lardner Quotes
He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
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.
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Robert Bolt Quotes
Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.
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Author Unknown Quotes
It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.
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Shirley MacLaine Quotes
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
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Thomas Fuller Quotes
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Wayne Dyer Quotes
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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Hannah Arendt Quotes
God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.
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David Nicholas Quotes
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Karl Popper Quotes
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
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Bill Cosby Quotes
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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Marquis de Vauvenargues Quotes
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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Sydney J. Harris Quotes
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
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Norman Douglas Quotes
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
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Danish Proverb Quotes
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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William Lyon MacKenzie Quotes
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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Proverb Quotes
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
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Marcel Proust Quotes
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill 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.
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Carl G. Jung Quotes
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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German Proverb Quotes
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
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William Dean Howells Quotes
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Edmund Burke Quotes
Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
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Author Unknown Quotes