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This collection holds 44 keeping promises quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are John Green, Stephen Covey and Thomas Fuller.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Deliver more than you promise.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Private victories precede public victories.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

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

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

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

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

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

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

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

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

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

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

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

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

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

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

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

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

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.

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

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