Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.
Deliver more than you promise.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that 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 thing.
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Private victories precede public victories.
Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.