Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Promises.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
Chinese Proverb
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Edward W. Howe
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Norman Vincent Peale
No pillows so soft as God's Promise.
Anon.
It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.
Oswald Chambers
It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MacLaine
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford