Quotes About Promises Kept

#1. One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.

Russell Pearce

#2. Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

Ban Ki-moon

#3. There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?

Ilona Andrews

#4. Money is the reward for risks taken, value delivered and promises kept.

Robin Sharma

#5. 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

#6. Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.

Vaclav Havel

#7. 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

#8. We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#9. Happily-ever-afters don't come in happily-every-days. They are found at the end of challenges-ever-met, promises-ever-kept, and tears-ever-wept.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Mary Douglas

#11. I lie in the dirt and pretend his words about my love don't hurt, but they slice me like the ice cold winds of winter. It takes all of the power I have left to lie there quietly and not remind him of the promises he has not kept.

Inger Iversen

#12. We have to separate promises that may never be kept from God's promises, which will never be broken.

Sheila Walsh

#13. They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Dee Brown

#14. That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

Joan Didion

#15. You know," he began, voice low and full, "if you were to ever leave me, I'd come looking for you, on every street."
"You promise?"
"Always." And I knew he kept his promises.

Karina Halle

#16. The promises you make on your mother's deathbed are promises that are absolute; they're titanium. There's no way you're breaking them. I promised my mother that I would take care of my brother. That I would look after him. I kept my word. I did it the best way I could. By leaving.

Jenny Han

#17. He kept his promises. He never wanted to abandon anyone the way he'd been abandoned and lied to.

Rick Riordan

#18. Shadow had promised himself a bath when he got out of prison, and Shadow kept his promises.

Neil Gaiman

#19. The president has kept all the promises he intended to keep.

George Stephanopoulos

#20. I kept my voice calm. It wasn't hard, I was calm. Anger carries less horror with it, men understand anger. It promises resolution; maybe bloody resolution, but swift.

Mark Lawrence

#21. I would have kept those promises - if you had no' transformed." "That's why promises are made, asshole! To be kept no matter the situation.

Kresley Cole

#22. At times,
trust is bound to be broken,
promises are bound not to be kept,
hearts are bound to be hurt,
mistakes are bound to be make.
You are also bound to meet a person at their worst in order for you to confirm that you want to be part of their lives.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#23. There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Clint Eastwood

#24. The mayor will be remembered because of his refusal to accept political favors and he kept his campaign promises.

Alicia Mendoza

#25. Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept.

Laura Schlessinger

#26. Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

Walter Bagehot

#27. But that's the thing about promises, isn't it? They can't always be kept. No matter how good the intentions behind them are.

Kara Terzis

#28. The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

Robert Grudin

#29. Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#30. I kept my promises.

Scott Walker

#31. No matter the intent or heartfelt emotion, not all promises could be kept.
Maxis

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#32. He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

William Shakespeare

#33. For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-awaited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retrieval.

George Eliot

#34. In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

Fred Allen

#35. The best thing that happened is I kept my promises. I ain't run out on nobody.

Fetty Wap

#36. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.

George Stephanopoulos

#37. Bad promises are better broken than kept.

Abraham Lincoln

#38. The True measure of a person's success is to be a person of value.' I knew people of value, people who kept their promises, people who were kind, people who were loyal.

Marjorie Hart

#39. I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

Sidney Sheldon

#40. It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

Cinda Williams Chima

#41. Luce: You could have kept your promises.
Daniel: I promised I'd stay.

Lauren Kate

#42. I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. THAT

Elie Wiesel

#43. 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

#44. Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?

Bernhard Schlink

#45. Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

E.W. Howe

#46. I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.

Jeffrey R. Holland