PROMISES QUOTES II

quotations about promises

Promises quote

In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Lullaby

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As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

GEORGETTE HEYER

Venetia


People with good intentions make promises. People with good character keep them.

ANONYMOUS

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The promises we make to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

MARY ANNE RADMACHER

Live With Intention

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The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule.

BREE DESPAIN

The Dark Divine


We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Maxims

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

CICERO

"On Standing for the Consulship", The Treatises of M. T. Cicero

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You never bade me hope, 'tis true;
I asked you not to swear:
But I looked in those eyes of blue,
And read a promise there.

GERALD GRIFFIN

You Never Bade Me Hope


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.

JENNIFER DONNELLY

A Northern Light


Promises are the ready money that was first coined and made current by the law of nature, to support that society and commerce that was necessary for the comfort and security of mankind.

EDWARD, EARL OF CLARENDON

A Collection of Serveral Tracts of the Right Honourable Edward, Earl of Clarendon


A promise is binding in the sense in which the promiser supposed the promisee to receive it.

WILLIAM PALEY

attributed, Day's Collacon


Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.... But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

JOHN GREEN

The Fault in Our Stars

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I had rather do and not promise, than promise and not do.

JOHN SELDEN

Table-talk

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Nothing weighs lighter than a promise.

GERMAN PROVERB


Promises are like fortune's shadows.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

PAULO COELHO

The Devil and Miss Prym


An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

JAMES HOWELL

Epistolae Ho-Elianae: The Familiar Letters of James Howell, Historiographer


Put the hand of fulfillment upon the bell of promise.

IBN HASSAN AKBAH

attributed, Day's Collacon


A promise against law or duty is void in its own nature; if it be just, I promised it; if unjust, I only said it.

AGESILAUS II

attributed, Day's Collacon


There is no virtue in a promise unless it be kept.

DANISH PROVERB