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Quotes About Promise I
By peace | May 31, 2007
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
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