Promises That Are Broken Quotes:

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Brian Gibbons (1991). “Measure for Measure”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

topic: Promise, Kept Promises, Promises That Are Broken

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

source: "At 500, Machiavelli's 'Prince' Still Inspires Love And Fear" by Sylvia Poggioli, www.npr.org. May 27, 2013.

topic: Past, Keeping Promises, Broken, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Commitment, Accomplishment, Inspirational Commitment, Kept Promises

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

- Red Auerbach

topic: Sports, Promise, World, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

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.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Keeping Promises, World, Body, Kept Promises, Promises That Are Broken

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Life, Faith, Philosophical, Broken Promises, Promise Me

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

- Barack Obama

topic: Mean, Doctors, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Trust, Betrayal, Deception, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

topic: Truth, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises, Promises That Are Broken

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.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

topic: Acceptance, Keeping Promises, Greed, Kept Promises, Promises That Are Broken

I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.

- Barack Obama

source: "Obama misled with 'hope and change'" by Reince Priebus, www.politico.com. April 03, 2012.

topic: Blue, America, Broken Promises, Breaking Promises, Promises That Are Broken

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

- Richard Paul Evans

source: Richard Paul Evans (2010). “Promise Me”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mirrors, Broken, Bleeding, Broken Promises, Breaking Promises

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Motivational, Graduation, Dream, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

- E. W. Howe

topic: Keeping Promises, People, Broken Promises, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

- Aeschylus

topic: Believe, Men, Promise, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that, too.

- Barack Obama

source: "Real battle over health care reform about to begin" by Jim Acosta, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2009.

topic: Doctors, Care, Like You, Broken Promises, Providers

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

- Hannah Arendt

topic: Promise, Way, Humans, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Success, Power, Promise, Broken Promises, Breaking Promises

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: War, Communication, Gossip, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Baby, Funny Life, Promise, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

- Thomas Fuller

source: "An Introduction to Prudence".

topic: Nice, Keeping Promises, Broken Promises, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

- Herbert

topic: Faith, Clever, Civilization, Hope And Faith, Promises That Are Broken

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

topic: Leadership, Mean, Men, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

Promise is most given when the least is said.

- George Chapman

source: George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations”, p.98

topic: Keeping Promises, Kept Promises, Said, Promises That Are Broken

Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

- Barack Obama

topic: Cutting, Office, Broken Promises, Breaking Promises, Promises That Are Broken

I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

topic: Cutting, Years, Law, Broken Promises, Breaking Promises

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

- Ovid

source: Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

topic: Keeping Promises, Broken Promises, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises, Promises That Are Broken

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

- Nikita Khrushchev

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Trust, Bridges, Kept Promises, Politicians Promises

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

- Sydney J. Harris

source: "Chicago Daily News" Newspaper, February 20, 1958.

topic: Summer, Winter, Keeping Promises, Promises That Are Broken

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Hypocrisy, Promise, Cost, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

- Hal Borland

topic: Spring, Promise, May, Spring Day, Spring Garden

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

- Bernard Baruch

source: In Meyer Berger New York (1960)

topic: Disappointment, Freedom, Political, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

- Barack Obama

source: "Massive government debt becoming key issue in 2012 race". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2012.

topic: Children, Broken Promises, Debt, Breaking Promises, Promises That Are Broken