Quotes on Promises

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

Author: Eva Braun

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.

Author: Tom Coburn

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.

Author: Charles Edison

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Author: Robert Frost

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Author: Thomas Fuller

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

Author: Harriet Jacobs

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Author: Mackenzie King

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

Author: Francis Marion

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

Author: Michelangelo

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

Author: Barbara Mikulski

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Author: Ovid

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

Author: Billy Sunday

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Author: Jonathan Swift

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Author: Denis Waitley

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

Author: Fareed Zakaria

Let your actions speak louder than your words, for deeds carry greater impact than promises.

Author: Sophia Adams

Let your actions speak louder than your words, for integrity is found in deeds, not promises.

Author: Jasmine Roberts

The winds of change may be turbulent, but they carry the potential for a brighter tomorrow.

Author: Sara Jenkins