Explore 'Promises'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

Jean de La Fontaine

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

William Lyon Mackenzie King

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

François de La Rochefoucauld

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

Matt Gonzalez

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

Hugh Masekela

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

Jackson Browne

So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.

Haruki Murakami

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there’s no water

Gregory David Roberts

Anyone who promises you something that you have not earned is seeking to enslave you.

James Wasserman

When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.

Jane D. Hull

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.

Ahmet Davutoglu

…there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

Danielle Steel

This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.

Lauren Oliver

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

John F. Kennedy

Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.

John Green

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

Seth

Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.

Seth Godin

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

Jim Leach

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.

Ann Aguirre

I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.

Ann Aguirre

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

Ann Brashares

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

Archibald MacLeish

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