Keeping Promises Quotes - Page 2

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

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

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

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

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that 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.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.