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Mr. Rawlings is a man of his word. The problem was, he made two different promises and he felt honored to keep them both. He hoped that by fulfilling one, in a different than expected way, he may have the chance to rectify the other.
Aleatha Romig
Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.
J.M. Darhower
Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
Proverb
She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.
Jefferson Smith
Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.
Ruckett
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Dwight L. Moody
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Norman Douglas
I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise
Steve Maraboli
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
William Penn
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
When a man takes an oath...,he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
Robert Bolt
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Ovid
Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
Thomas Fuller
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Gustav Jung
