Famous Promises Quotes collection

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

"Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver."
~ Author Unknown

"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."
~ Hannah Arendt

"Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made."
~ Edgar Watson Howe

"The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today."
~ William Lyon MacKenzie

"An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises."
~ Mae West

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."
~ Robert Frost

"A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain."
~ Arabian Proverb

"There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept."
~ Gaelic Proverb

"You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own."
~ Mark Caine