Promises Quotes

29 quotations about Promises
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus · Promises
If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte · Promises
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte · Promises
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll · Promises
What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
Catullus · Promises
Promise is most given when the least is said.
George Chapman · Promises
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Norman Douglas · Promises
All promise outruns performance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Promises
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost · Promises
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Thomas Fuller · Promises
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller · Promises
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt · Promises
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Edgar Watson Howe · Promises
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli · Promises
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli · Promises
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Dwight L. Moody · Promises
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Ovid · Promises
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Norman Vincent Peale · Promises
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
Proverb · Promises
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
Proverb · Promises
Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
Danish Proverb · Promises
Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
German Proverb · Promises
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau · Promises
Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.
Ruckett · Promises
No pillows so soft as God's Promise.
Saying · Promises

Authors on Promises

Aeschylus Napoleon Bonaparte Lewis Carroll Catullus George Chapman Danish Proverb Norman Douglas Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Thomas Fuller German Proverb William Hazlitt Edgar Watson Howe Niccolo Machiavelli Dwight L. Moody Ovid Norman Vincent Peale Proverb Jean Jacques Rousseau Ruckett