Promise Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
~Karl Popper
Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises.
- Jarod Kintz
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
- C.J. Hill
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
~ Robert Service
For every promise, there is price to pay.
~ Jim Rohn
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
- Mae West
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
~Niccolo Machiavelli
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
- Samuel Johnson
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
~Edgar Watson Howe
A politician is known by the promises he keeps.
Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
- John Green
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
Promises are easier to make but hard to keep.
Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
- Holly Black
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Promise is most given when the least is said.
~ George Chapman