170 Breaking Promises Quotes

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Famous Breaking Promises Quotes

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. - Eliel Saarinen

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. — Eliel Saarinen

A promise must never be broken. — Alexander Hamilton

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. - Scottish Proverbs

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. — Scottish Proverbs

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope. — Marilyn Monroe

A promise made is a debt unpaid. — Robert William Service

A promise made is a debt unpaid. — Robert W. Service

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. — Jennifer Donnelly

Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon — Virginia C. Andrews

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. — Dick Gregory

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

Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not planning to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good relationship, and good customer service is no exception. — Susan Ward

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. — Chief Joseph

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word. — Brian Tracy

Trust is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing. — Drake

Short Breaking Promises Quotes

  • He who breaks his word shall through his word be broken. — Bulgarian Proverbs
  • 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
  • Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. — Francis Marion
  • We must keep the promises we make to ourselves so that we can keep those that we make to others. — Jay Shetty
  • People ask me why it is so hard to trust and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise. — Wiz Khalifa
  • Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code. — Robert W. Service
  • We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  • To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself. — Marie Forleo
  • The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them. — Stephen Covey

Breaking Promises Image Quotes

Breaking promises quote Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.

Not Breaking Promises Quotes

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise — Steve Maraboli

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you. — Catherynne M. Valente

Women get a little more excited about New Year's Eve than men do. It's like an excuse: you drink too much, you make a lot of promises you're not going to keep; the next morning as soon as you wake up you start breaking them. For men, we just call that a date. — Jay Leno

Breaking promises quote Sometimes, a break from your routine is the very thing you need.
Sometimes, a break from your routine is the very thing you need.

Algeria is not breaking up. — Ahmed Ben Bella

Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child. — Charles Spurgeon

He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares. — George R. R. Martin

Breaking promises quote It's okay to be a glowstick. Sometimes we have to break before we shine.
It's okay to be a glowstick. Sometimes we have to break before we shine.

Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found. — John Quincy Adams

DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark. — Anne Carson

The wall is going to to take a while. Obviously [Donald Trump] is going to build it.It's a campaign promise; he's not going to break a campaign promise. — Rudy Giuliani

Words not kept break more than a promise. — Ron Kaufman

Broken Promises Quotes

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind. — Douglas MacArthur

Breaking promises quote "Someday" is a disease that will take dreams to the grave with you.
"Someday" is a disease that will take dreams to the grave with you.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. — John F. Kennedy

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. — Charles Williams

Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen. — James MacDonald

Breaking promises quote People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you
People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you.

I've never had my heart broken. — Sally Field

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets. — Susanna Clarke

People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself. — Leon Brown

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises. — Helen Prejean

Promises That Are Broken Quotes

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. — Red Auerbach

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

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes. — Malcolm Bradbury

Breaking promises quote It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. — E. W. Howe

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

He was ever precise in promise-keeping. — William Shakespeare

If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. — Barack Obama

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

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Keeping Promises Quotes

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you. — Constantin Stanislavski

Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top.. So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop — J. Cole

God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you. — Charles Stanley

The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman

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

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

Gold and Bitcoin also hedge against inflation, never pay negative interest, and when held directly are not subject to haircuts and do not depend on strangers keeping their promises. — Nick Szabo

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. — Ray Davies

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep... — Robert Frost

To my fellow creators, wholeheartedly, I am sorry I brought shame upon the platform. I promise I will do the community well and keep on trucking and bring light to YouTube. — Logan Paul

Kept Promises Quotes

So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force. — E. Howard Hunt

We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. — William Lyon Mackenzie

Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office. — Shirley Maclaine

Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people. — Ban Ki-moon

Deliver more than you promise. — Patricia Ryan

A promise made should be a promise kept. — Steve Forbes

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say! — Mary Douglas

False Promises Quotes

Poor leaders motivate those following them with false promises of promotions, success, and a great tomorrow but rarely deliver on those promises. — Lewis Howes

When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion. — George Carlin

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky. — George Carlin

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep. — Edna Ferber

I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed. — Stephenie Meyer

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them. — Thomas Otway

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises. — Frances Wright

The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls. — Wayne LaPierre

The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that's our turf, buddy! — Jay Leno

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides

Empty Promises Quotes

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes. - Peter The Great

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes. — Peter The Great

This fetishization of wanting more, are empty promises of happiness and fulfillment that never seem to come to fruition. — Paul Jarvis

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom. — Vladimir Lenin

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise. — Charles Handy

There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup. — Ted Kooser

Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master. — Miguel de Cervantes

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty. — Ashraf Ghani

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises. — Teresa Heinz

During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania. — Dalia Grybauskaite

Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action. — Annie Lobert

Political Promises Quotes

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other. — Tommy Douglas

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters — Daniel Webster

Europe were promised LNG by the US after cutting Russian buying. They were lied to. Electoral politics more important than a core ally. Biden pulls the LNG terminals even though Qatari LNG has to take the long route due to Red Sea attacks. Europe look like complete clowns. — Philip Pilkington

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves — Thomas Sowell

For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise. — Harry Browne

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet

I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money. — Allan Boesak

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic. — Pope Benedict XVI

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy. — Frances Harper

God Promises Quotes

Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up. — Joyce Meyer

Living with faith and courage is something that life requires of each of us. Never, absolutely never, give up! Never give in no matter what! Fight it through! And I promise you something with all of my heart-God will help you. — Kathryn Kuhlman

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things. — Corrie Ten Boom

Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him. — Smith Wigglesworth

No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life. — T. D. Jakes

No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God. — David Jeremiah

Listen to the long stillness: New life is stirring New dreams are on the wing New hopes are being readied: Humankind is fashioning a new heart Humankind is forging a new mind God is at work. This is the season of Promise — Howard Thurman

But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises. — Arthur W. Pink

I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him. — William Carey

The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom. — Maximilian Kolbe

Keep Your Promise Quotes

Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises. — Derrick Bell

Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there. — Joel Osteen

As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you! — Victoria Osteen

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way. — Joel Osteen

Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. — Joel Osteen

Put up your guards, keep faith in God, I promise you all the world will be ours. — Puff Daddy

Trusting God completely means having faith that he knows what is best for your life. You expect him to keep his promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary. — Rick Warren

Make your optimism come true. — Christian D. Larson

Good appearance doesn’t make a real man. The important thing is to do your best and keep your promises. A real man should show his faith in actions (rather) than words. — Yunho

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. — Patricia Heaton

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More Breaking Promises Quotes

There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. — Elijah Muhammad

"Love me or hate me, I promise it won't make or break me." — Lil Wayne

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something. — Barney Ross

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break. — Jodi Picoult

I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. — Theodore Isaac Rubin

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. — James Madison

No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce. — Peter Kreeft

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man after his own image, and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him. — Johann Most

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. — Xiaolu Guo

Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3 — Tyra Banks

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. — William Hazlitt

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole. — Jodi Picoult

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. — William Hazlitt

There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself? — Jodi Picoult

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. — William Hazlitt

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors? — James Lee Burke

A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness. — R. C. Sproul

Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch. — Craig Kilborn

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

Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains. — Marcus Aurelius

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else. — Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

One promises much, to avoid giving little. — Luc De Clapiers

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day. — Eric Cantor

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children. — Joe Lieberman

We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to us the most blessed of experiences, if we trust in him. Death is unclasping; joy, breaking out in the desert; the heart, come to its blossoming time! Do we call it dying when the bud bursts into flower? — Henry Ward Beecher

How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day! — Thomas Love Peacock

And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. — William Shakespeare

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace. — James F. Byrnes

Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship. — Simon Cameron

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