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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
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
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
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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