Top 100 Keep Promises Quotes
#1. I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
Stephen Covey
#2. The ability to make and keep promises is the key aspect to trust in a relationship.
Robert Cheeke
#3. There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises.
Madeleine L'Engle
#4. Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.
Max De Pree
#5. Quickest way to build trust: Keep promises you make, don't over-promise. Over-deliver, don't under-deliver. If you say you'll do something, make sure you do but if things then run late or go wrong, tell your client at the earliest opportunity
Phil Harding
#6. If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.
David Cameron
#7. Sometimes life is so complicated to keep promises.
Lee Monroe
#8. Evil people can still keep promises. Many have done just that, girl, though they are usually not promises you 'rational' people wish them to keep.
Tim Reed
#9. Promise me no promises,
So will I not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?
Christina Rossetti
#10. I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing ... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother.
Amy Tan
#11. When you break the promises, you loose the credibility. When you loose the credibility, you loose the trust. So, keep your promises, because trust is the foundation of soulfully inspired life.
Vishwas Chavan
#13. I had complete faith that this was a man who would keep his promises, who would always be there when I needed him, who would always have my best interests at heart. Together we would be able to face anything in life.
Rosemary K. West
#14. As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.
Bill Maher
#15. No one should have the right to ask you to keep promiseespecially if they don't consider all the facts.
Bree Despain
#16. To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.
Marie Forleo
#17. They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.
Don McLean
#18. Neil had never seen him play like this, so intense and fast and determined, but Andrew had promises to keep and a goal to defend. With
Nora Sakavic
#19. You can trust me to keep my word. I always keep my word, promises or threats.
Kim Harrison
#20. A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.
Denis Waitley
#21. One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
Ann Brashares
#22. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise). 3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest (if you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it).'
Abu Hurairah
#23. Promises are perhaps made in haste or out of emotions, that is why people do not afford to keep them
Tarif Naaz
#24. The guy is a total idiot. Forget him," Luke said, and wiped the lone tear that was running down her cheek. "I promise I won't ever do that to you."
"Please don't make promises if you can't keep them," she said, feeling her guard going up a little.
"I always keep my promises.
Kat Green
#25. Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.
Joel Osteen
#26. The word never shouldn't exist; that way we would be less inclined to make promises we can't keep.
Pablo De Santis
#27. It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep.
V.C. Andrews
#28. Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Denis Waitley
#29. Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.
Dean Koontz
#30. It was one of those youthful promises that you make to yourself and keep long after you stop recognizing what you are doing, or how it is distorting your life.
Adam Haslett
#31. The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
Doc Hastings
#32. I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them
Robin McKinley
#33. The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#34. All those countries who keep their aid promises should be proud of what they've done
David Cameron
#35. It is your decision what kind of person you will be, how you will respond to the challenges you face. Keep your promises, forgo your grudges, apologize when necessary, speak your love, and speak it again.
David A. Goodman
#36. Promises of his love, that he'd always protect me and keep me safe, filled the air around us until I believed it, with every ounce of my soul.
Meredith Wild
#37. Promises, eh? You make so many, but how many of them can you keep?
S. Jae-Jones
#38. leadership means taking personal responsibility for results. Leadership means you get things done. Leadership means you keep your promises.
Robin S. Sharma
#39. Don't just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don't just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don't just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.
Mark Batterson
#40. Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.
Martha Stout
#41. I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.
Ella T. Grasso
#42. But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
Mark Kennedy
#43. It's pointless to spend millions on advertising before ensuring that the promise keepers (employees) understand and can keep the promises made by the promise makers
Ian P. Buckingham
#44. As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.
Michael Chabon
#45. One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.
Steve Morse
#47. Memory is a riddled thing. I would caution you from making promises you cannot keep.
Roshani Chokshi
#48. Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.
Kenneth Grahame
#49. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises.
Paulo Coelho
#50. Women get a little more excited about New Year's Eve than men do. It's like an excuse: you drink too much, you make a lot of promises you're not going to keep; the next morning as soon as you wake up you start breaking them. For men, we just call that a date.
Jay Leno
#51. Maybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's how people in love get very badly hurt.
Ransom Riggs
#52. We're all going to die. Alone and miserably. With lots of pain. That's the way life goes. People make promises and don't keep them. They say they care about you and forget you.
Karen Marie Moning
#53. In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'
Charles Spurgeon
#54. An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.
Dieter Rams
#56. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.
Joan Didion
#57. For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises.
... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.
Susan Abulhawa
#58. The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
Stephen Covey
#59. Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.
Heidi
#60. Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
Owen Feltham
#61. I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.
Judy Blume
#62. Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach ... I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of it would count.
Joan Didion
#63. Success is a choice; a promise that you make to yourself to keep moving forward.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#65. Your promise is someone's hope. Keep your promises.
Tarang Sinha
#66. The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.
Judd Gregg
#67. Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises.
Derrick Bell
#68. 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
#69. She had always swum alone. She had never swum in the company of a man, and this man -- She dragged her eyes away again....
"Go in. I will follow you but don't look."
Jack laughed. "I never make promises I can't keep," he said.
Marguerite Kaye
#70. In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.
Isabelle Adjani
#71. Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.
Bob Anderson
#72. I didn't promise you shit. My dead friends, on the other hand
I made them certain promises I intend to keep.
Scott Lynch
#73. He'd given her his vow: to take care of her, to keep her from hurt or pain, from wanting for anything. Her leaving didn't negate his promises; they weren't conditional.
Melissa Marr
#74. 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.
Zig Ziglar
#76. Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.
Tom Coburn
#77. Nobody killed gods, nobody had the intention of killing gods. People simply ignored them as they failed to keep their promises
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#78. This is all yours right here. All of me. No one else gets a thing from me, you understand? I wouldn't do that to you. I wouldn't make all these promises if I didn't intend to keep them.
R.K. Lilley
#79. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
#81. Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.
Howard Dean
#82. We all have rough times in our lives tears, anger, and more. We have the tools to prepare for them times before they come like studying, memorizing the word, keep God in our lives and believing God's promises.
Amanda Penland
#83. Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.
Anthony Eden
#84. I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.
John Kasich
#85. God is trustworthy - He always keeps His promises.
Jim George
#86. If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure.
Michael Bennett
#87. When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope.
Yasmine El Rashidi
#88. We often promise our friend to hold there hand in time of need and crisis but maximum fails to keep it. Who don't fail is your true friend. Learn to keep the promise. Friendship is ever thing.
Debolina
#90. What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
Peter Garrett
#92. One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.
Anton Chekhov
#93. So help me God," I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. "If you go back on your word, I will tear you apart. And I won't stop, not ever, until I've destroyed your life and the lives of every single person in this organization. Believe me, you may not always keep your promises, but I do.
Alexandra Bracken
#94. He had crossed the threshold into that room, where a single promise threw a thousand bolts: I'll find you. That promise, like all promises, created its own morality. To keep it, he would have to cross a sea of blood.
The world unloosed. The planets bound.
Rick Yancey
#95. You keep making these dirty promises. I'm starting to think you're all talk.
Melissa Blue
#96. The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#97. If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true self.
Parker J. Palmer
#98. If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#99. Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.
James MacDonald
#100. My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Li£e continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.
Marjorie Holmes
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