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All promise outruns performance.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Best Quotes about Promises

1.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Arendt, Hannah

2.
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
Bolt, Robert

3.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil 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.
Jung, Carl

4.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.
Carroll, Lewis

5.
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
Wilder, Thornton

6.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Vauvenargues, Marquis De

7.
It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.
Maclaine, Shirley

8.
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo

9.
If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Douglas, Norman

11.
All promise outruns performance.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
Proverb

13.
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Hazlitt, William

14.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.
Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.
Ruckett

16.
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
Agar, Herbert

17.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Ovid

18.
Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
Proverb, German

19.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Machiavelli, Niccolo

20.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Machiavelli, Niccolo

21.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Peale, Norman Vincent

22.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Howe, Edgar Watson

23.
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
Proverb

24.
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Moody, Dwight L.

25.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus

26.
What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
Catullus

27.
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
Proverb, Chinese

28.
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
Proverb, Danish

29.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Frost, Robert

30.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Fuller, Thomas

31.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Fuller, Thomas

32.
No pillows so soft as God's Promise.
Saying

33.
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
Swift, Jonathan


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