Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
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.
The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Deliver more than you promise.
