Top 42 Quotes About Not Keeping A Promise
#1. Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.
Mike Ditka
#2. When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.
Edmund Fuller
#3. It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep.
V.C. Andrews
#5. Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.
Michael Card
#8. I'm sorry for what I did," I whispered. "I'm still keeping my promise, though. I'll never forget anything again - I swear it. I haven't forgotten anything since that day, Mom. Nothing.
Shay Savage
#9. Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.
Charlotte M. Mason
#10. Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.
Seth Godin
#11. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?
John Green
#12. The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.
Brian Tracy
#13. And finally that I tend to regard marriage as a promise: the error is not in not keeping it but in making it.
Gordon Sheppard
#14. Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.
Lewis B. Smedes
#15. I believe that there are barriers, educational barriers, cultural barriers, societal barriers, that are keeping people from accessing the promise of a vibrant free enterprise economy.
Marco Rubio
#16. Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"
Robert Breault
#17. Keeping the gospel in focus, you see, is more than helping our children know forgiveness of sin through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. In the gospel there is the promise of internal transformation and empowerment.
Tedd Tripp
#18. We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Abraham Lincoln
#19. I know what keeping a promise means." "No, you only know what making a promise means," Alexander said. "You are very good at making the promise. It's keeping the promise you have a problem with.
Paullina Simons
#20. We don't need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.
Kofi Annan
#21. Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#22. Ah, gods, hope. Our savior and our tormentor, the price and ferry pass for the dreams that carry us to the future.
Amy Lane
#23. 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
#24. What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.
Josephine Baker
#25. When you get up in front of a group of people, you make a contract with them; you promise them, "I am going to deliver value X." Every once in a while, you have to say, "See, I remember; I am keeping my promise.
Leonard Peikoff
#26. 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.
John Green
#27. Donald Trump trying to do to the American voter what he did to the people that signed up for this course: He's making promises he has no intention of keeping.
Mitt Romney
#28. Hope.
It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.
Tahereh Mafi
#29. In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
Graham Greene
#30. Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken?
Randy Alcorn
#31. People make promises that they have every intention of keeping at the time but when it comes to cashing in, suddenly the promise loses all value.
Mercy Cortez
#32. If keeping your word costs you the one thing you love the most, then what was it even worth keeping in the first place?
Heather McKenzie
#34. Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
Seth Godin
#35. Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.
Max De Pree
#36. Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places. This one was sent out by the breath of an accordion, the odd taste of champagne in summer, and the art of promise-keeping.
Markus Zusak
#37. Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.
Lawrence LeShan
#38. I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they're well-paid, well-trained, well-equipped.
George W. Bush
#39. I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.
Libba Bray
#41. A strong work ethic is a form of accountability, because it involves keeping a promise to one's employer. It is not the same thing as workaholism.
Bruce Weinstein
#42. I know you're feeling worried,
But I promise I'm okay.
You think I'm missing all the fun,
But I don't want to play.
And I'm not feeling lonely;
Yeah, I've got a friend with me.
I'm just keeping this corner company.
Margo T. Rose
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