47+ Promise Quotes About Keeping Your Word (2023)

47+ Promise Quotes About Keeping Your Word (2023)

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A Promise should not be easily made, but if made should be kept. Our words can hold a lot of value to someone, so they must be used carefully.

Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about keeping your word and promises that you can share on world promise day.


Short Quotes About Promise

1. “Promise a lot and give even more” – Anthony J D’Angelo

2. “For every promise, there is price to pay” – Jim Rohn

3. “Never promise more than you can perform” – Publilius Syrus

4. “All promise outruns performance” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “A promise made is a debt unpaid” – Robert Service

6. “Promise is most given when the least is said” – George Chapman

7. “Some promises aren’t worth keeping” – Holly Black

8. “Never make a promise in haste” – Mahatma Gandhi

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Quotes On Promise Keeping

9. “Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform” – William Penn

10. “One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes” – Friedrich Nietzsche

11. “Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep” – Anthony Hitt

12. “Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise” – Lou Holtz

13. “It is easy to make promises, but it is hard work to keep them” – Boris Johnson

14. “Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them” – C. S. Lewis

15. “Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once” – Norman Vincent Peale

16. “If being recalled is the price for keeping one’s promises, then so be it” – Russell Pearce


Quotes About Broken Promise

17. “Better a broken promise than none at all” – Mark Twain

18. “A promise must never be broken” – Alexander Hamilton

19. “Promises may fit the friends, but non- performance will turn them into enemies” – Benjamin Franklin

20. “Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made” – Edgar Watson Howe

21. “The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present” – Niccolo Machiavelli

22. “Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both” – C.J. Hill

23. “Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them” – William Hazlitt

24. “Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth” – Mahatma Gandhi


Quotes About Fake Promises

25. “You can’t trust a promise someone makes while they’re drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office” – Joe Moore

26. “We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot” – Abraham Lincoln

27. “Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn’t count for much” – Kristin Hannah

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. “The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition” – Carl Jung

30. “Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises” – Mason Cooley

31. “Magnificent promises are always to be suspected” – Theodore Parker

32. “Every man is a millionaire where promises are concerned” – Ovid

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Quotes About Value Of Promise

33. “Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible” – Hannah Arendt

34. “When you make a promise, keep it” – Zig Ziglar

35. “A promise should be given with caution and kept with care” – Socrates

36. “People with good intentions make promises, but people with good character keep them” – Joubert Botha

37. “Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

38. “We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears” – François de La Rochefoucauld

39. “The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today” – William Lyon MacKenzie

40. “You cannot live on other people’s promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own” – Mark Caine

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Quotes About Hope And Promise

41. “Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them” – Stephen Richards

42. “Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise” – Thornton Wilder

43. “To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very things” – Mark Twain

44. “Don’t promise, prove. Your results will speak for themselves” – Jim Kwikm

45. “Delivering what you promise is a big skill to learn and master” – Robert S. Murray

46. “A Promise is greater than a goal—it is a sacred commitment” – Jason Hewlett

47. “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” – Michelangelo

48. “Promises are like flowers, often given, rarely kept” – Joe Abercrombie

49. “A promise is like the earth underneath us. It must be solid. How can we walk, and run, and live and laugh, when we can’t count on the ground beneath us. And so it is with promises. They keep us upright. They hold up everyone and everything” – Dave Eggers


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