Top 100 Promises To Keep Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
#4. 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
#5. I wake up at night with nowehere to go, no promises to keep and no whispers any more.
Natasha Illum Berg
#6. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
#8. Words are for those with promises to keep.
W. H. Auden
#9. God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises.
Charles Spurgeon
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. No one should have the right to ask you to keep promiseespecially if they don't consider all the facts.
Bree Despain
#14. To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.
Marie Forleo
#15. They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.
Don McLean
#16. I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
Stephen Covey
#17. You can trust me to keep my word. I always keep my word, promises or threats.
Kim Harrison
#18. 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
#19. One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
Ann Brashares
#20. 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
#21. The ability to make and keep promises is the key aspect to trust in a relationship.
Robert Cheeke
#22. Promises are perhaps made in haste or out of emotions, that is why people do not afford to keep them
Tarif Naaz
#23. 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
#24. The word never shouldn't exist; that way we would be less inclined to make promises we can't keep.
Pablo De Santis
#25. It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep.
V.C. Andrews
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.
Ella T. Grasso
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#43. The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
Stephen Covey
#44. 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
#45. I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.
Judy Blume
#46. 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
#47. Success is a choice; a promise that you make to yourself to keep moving forward.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I didn't promise you shit. My dead friends, on the other hand
I made them certain promises I intend to keep.
Scott Lynch
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Nobody killed gods, nobody had the intention of killing gods. People simply ignored them as they failed to keep their promises
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope.
Yasmine El Rashidi
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. You keep making these dirty promises. I'm starting to think you're all talk.
Melissa Blue
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#69. After the threat of war is gone, we should not turn our backs on the men and women who eliminated that threat. We should embrace them and keep our promises we made to them.
Charles B. Rangel
#70. 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
#71. Was she strong enough to allow both of them to be themselves? Bahama had instilled in her an honoring of promises, but she could not keep her promise unless she was willing to allow Nik to be Nik, not a projection of someone who could fill in all her empty spaces, heal all her wounds.
Madeleine L'Engle
#72. Your self-esteem is determined by how much you keep to the promises given to yourself.
Sunday Adelaja
#73. Promises are born broken, to fix them you keep them..
Jenim Dibie
#74. No buts, Bertie. If you don't keep your promise then you'll get into serious trouble. Big time. You could go to prison, and then what? And there's God too. God watches these things and if he sees you breaking promises he can really get you. He does it all the time.
Alexander McCall Smith
#75. If I keep my promises to the Lord, He will always keep His promises to me. He [will] always fulfill His end of the bargain - and much, much more - if I fulfill mine.
L. Tom Perry
#76. And tell your wife whatever you want, but don't make promises you're not going to keep. And don't knock yourself out over it; you didn't invent infidelity.
Marc Fitten
#77. I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
Orson Welles
#78. I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.
Raul Labrador
#79. Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.
Nick Vujicic
#80. The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to keep those promises. Some of you may wonder where Bernie Madoff got the idea for his Ponzi scheme. Clearly he was studying federal entitlement policy.
John C. Goodman
#81. You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.
Jesse Williams
#82. Keep all your promises, don't take what doesn't belong to you, and always look after those less fortunate than yourself, and you'll do well in the world.
Rebecca Rupp
#83. A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.
Rick Warren
#85. Many years ago, I made a New Year's resolution to never make New Year's resolutions. Hell, it's been the only resolution I've ever kept!
D.S. Mixell
#86. The simple act of trusting God can be defined as acting as if God were going to keep His promises, however bleak the current circumstances may appear.
Robert J. Morgan
#87. We must not pick and choose which commandments we think are important to keep but acknowledge all of God's commandments. We must stand firm and steadfast, having perfect confidence in the Lord's consistency and perfect trust in His promises.
L. Tom Perry
#88. the past is a liar
full of promises it can't keep
but like a foolish first love
you keep going back to it
Jennifer Alex Oliveira
#89. Ned Stark kept his vows. He thought of the promises he'd made Lyanna as she lay dying, and the price he'd paid to keep them.
George R R Martin
#90. I won't make you promises again that I can't keep. Swear that, babe. So when I promise right now that I know where my head is at with you and I want us both to give this the best shot we can give it, you can believe that.
Kristen Ashley
#91. Don't hold on to promises you are no longer meant to keep- Caleb
Josie Leigh
#92. God will keep His promises to you as you honor your covenants with Him.
Carole M. Stephens
#93. Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn't keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.
Beth Moore
#94. Be certain that Yasser Arafat's final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that ... the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep.
Mohammed Dahlan
#95. Con artists are using Obamacare confusion to sign people up for fake health insurance. The scammers lure victims with false promises like, 'If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan.' The scammers will tell you that, so you have to be careful.
Jay Leno
#96. 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
#97. It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
Boris Johnson
#99. I promised you the moon for your throne and stars to wear in your hair," said Amar, gesturing inside. "And I always keep my promises.
Roshani Chokshi
#100. In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away
Katy Perry
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