Motivational Quotes

Promises

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

Best Quotes about Promises

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Ruckett

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Aeschylus

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

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

Proverb, Danish

10.

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

11.

No pillows so soft as God's Promise.

Saying

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

14.

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

Proverb

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

17.

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

Frost, Robert

18.

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

19.

All promise outruns performance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Catullus

21.

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

Proverb, German

22.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

23.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Hazlitt, William

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Wilder, Thornton

28.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Ovid

29.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.