Promises Are Just Words Quotes

#1. For I am the kind of dangerous dreamer who executes all his reveries, wishes, words, promises, plans. The wildest and the lightest. A wish for me is not a game: it's a creation.

Anais Nin

#2. Europe and America should judge Georgia's leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#3. Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.

Kenneth Cloke

#4. Everyone seems inspired by some religion that promises fulfillment. Within the clashing words we are all expressing the same impulses. We are divided over methods which are the fruit of our reasoning, but not over our goals, which are identical.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#5. I don't fall for words, I fall for action because words always carry empty promises but one step at a time is the beginning of fulfilment. Don't say just do it! Don't announce just show it! Don't gloat just prove it!

Euginia Herlihy

#6. We find hope in a hostile place when we focus on the goodness of God as revealed in His promises. In other words, hope and security come when we - like the Israelites - acknowledge God's love for us.

Elizabeth George

#7. Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Roger L'Estrange

#8. One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

Harold Holzer

#9. When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Euripides

#10. words are empty if you're too cowardly to actually make your promises come true.

Alex Ashmore

#11. Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Stephen Covey

#12. Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

Vladimir Lenin

#13. O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,

William Shakespeare

#14. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chief Joseph

#15. She hadn't dreamed a time would ever come when someone might want to emulate her talk or behavior. Consequently, it made her feel tight and strange inside to hear her words on the kid's lips. A small part of her was astonished and secretly flattered. But a larger part was appalled.

Maggie Osborne

#16. God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.

John Piper

#17. We splinter into a thousand pieces in her kitchen, becoming more together than we were apart. More than we were alone. With whispered promises and words of love, we exchange hearts.

Kennedy Ryan

#18. The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.

Jen Pollock Michel

#19. No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises.

Saru Singhal

#20. But honestly? What women need?" Dean paused to take a sip of his coffee. "Actions. Not words. Sorry doesn't mean shit, begging doesn't mean shit, and promises don't mean shit.

Priscilla Glenn

#21. Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.

Mike Ditka

#22. The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the layers of demoded words and shapes.

William Carlos Williams

#23. Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.

Auliq Ice

#24. Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made.

Sami Yusuf

#25. What about those Promises of yours to never leave me? she asked, stammering too much this time. His cruel smirk was as gut-wrenching as his words - Promises are meant to be broken, sweetheart.

Khadija Rupa

#26. In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

Chuck Palahniuk

#27. The leaves do fad and fall away, / Berries rot and sheaves decay; / The deer is fled back to the field. / That is all your promises yield. / All wind and words, your vows, I see, / Are barren as the fruitless tree.

Lauren Willig

#28. Words are foolish. Promises are useless. Anyone can say anything to get what it is they desire. Believe in actions and actions alone.

Renee Ahdieh

#29. Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.

Chief Joseph

#30. Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

George R R Martin

#31. Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...

Stephen Richards

#32. Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.

Ian McGuire

#33. Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

Annie Lobert

#34. There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

Alice Hoffman