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
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. – Aeschylus
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. – Norman Douglas
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All promise outruns performance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. – Thomas Fuller
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. – Norman Vincent Peale
He loses his thanks who promises and delays. – Proverb
Promise is most given when the least is said. – George Chapman
Eggs and oaths are easily broken. – Danish Proverb
Nothing weights lighter than a promise. – German Proverb
A promise made is a debt unpaid. – Robert Service
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. – William Dean Howells
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. – Denis Waitley
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. – Abraham Lincoln
For every promise, there is price to pay. – Jim Rohn
