#Promises Quotes

“O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable”

“All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.”

“Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.”

“Never make a promise without a plan.”

“Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.”

“If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'”

“Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.”

“The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.”

“If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.”

“The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.”

“How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?”

“I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.”

“Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.”

“I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.”

“I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...”

“The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.”

“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”

“The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.”

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

“If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.”

“Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.”

“Never make a promise in haste.”

“Better a broken promise than none at all.”

“Be true to what you said on paper.”

“Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.”

“To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.”

“In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.”

“We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.”

“Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.”

“A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.”

“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”

“The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.”

“I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.”

“Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.”

“There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.”

“One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.”

“That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.”

“We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.”

“Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.”

“Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.”

“Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!”

“I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.”

“I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.”

“A man who has been in danger,When he comes out of it forgets his fears,And sometimes he forgets his promises.”

“In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.”

“First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.”

“You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.”

“Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.”

“I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.”

“Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.”