quotes about Keeping Promises
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I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.221, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.
-- Lawrence LeShanSource : Lawrence LeShan (1995). “Meditating to Attain a Healthy Body Weight”, Bantam
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Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.
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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.
-- Stephen Covey -
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Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.
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Don't make promises you can't keep.
-- Howard BryantSource : "Steve Ballmer, Serena Williams Headline The Week In Sports". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 31, 2014.
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Promise is most given when the least is said.
-- George ChapmanSource : George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations”, p.98
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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Source : "A Handbook of the Cornish Language". Book by Henry Jenner, 1904.