Quotes on Keeping Promises

I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

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

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.

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

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

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

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

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

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

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.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

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

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.