Promise Quotes

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain

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

Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.
Lawrence LeShan

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller

He is poor indeed who can promise nothing.
Thomas Fuller

Promise a lot and give even more.
Anthony J. D`Angelo

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
Hannah Arendt

God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.
Bulgarian Proverb

If you can’t give me your word of honor, will you give me your promise
Samuel Goldwyn

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

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Sydney Harris

Vote for the man who promises least. He’ll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
Proverb

God… doesn’t promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace.
Patricia Heaton

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

Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.
Ruckett

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
Danish Proverb

Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift

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

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain
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Arabian Proverb

A promise is a comfort for a fool.
Proverb

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

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

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
Marion Berry

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

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Dwight Moody

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Wolfgang Von Goethe

You cannot live on other people’s promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
Mark Caine

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper

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.
Carl Jung

Put up or shut up.
American Proverb

All promise outruns performance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson