Keeping Promises Quotes

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Private victories precede public victories.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Deliver more than you promise.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.