Top 43 Promise Quotes That Will Encourage You To Be Honest

1. “The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.” ― Molly Ringwald

2. “Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.” ― Denis Waitley

3. “One promises much, to avoid giving little.” ― Luc de Clapiers

4. “Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.” ― William Penn

5. “Don’t make promises you don’t intend to keep.” ― Anonymous

6. “No matter how far, I won’t give up on you.” ― Anonymous

7. “People with good intentions make promises. But people with good character keep them.” ― Anonymous

8. “He was a man, he always performed his promises.” ― Zebulon Pike

9. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.” ― Robert Frost

10. “We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.” ― Abraham Lincoln

11. “We worry about tomorrow like it’s promised.” ― Anonymous

12. “The best promises forever seem to be made by amnesiacs.” ― Chris Gould

13. “Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them.” ― Stephen Richards

14. “Never break a promise to an animal. They’re like babies—they won’t understand.” ― Tamora Pierce

15. “Promise me you’ll always remember you’re braver than you believe, you are stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― Winnie the Pooh

16. “Promise is a big word. It either makes something or it break something.” ― Anonymous

17. “For every promise, there is a price to pay.” ― Jim Rohn

18. “Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.” ― Norman Vincent Peale

19. “As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.” ― Georgette Heyer

20. “Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.” ― Thomas Fuller

21. “I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.” ― Robert Kiyosaki

22. “One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

23. “Oaths are the fossils of piety.” ― George Santayana

24. “Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.” ― William Hazlitt

25. “As a human being, the best eulogy I can reasonably hope for is ‘He made his promises sincerely and broke them regretfully.’” – Robert Brault

26. “Three things you should never break: promises, trust, and someone’s heart.” ― Anonymous

27. “Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn’t count for much.” ― Kristin Hannah

28. “There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.” ― Gaelic Proverb

29. “Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.” ― C. S. Lewis

30. “Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.” ― John Green

31. “Promise yourself, no matter how hard it gets, you’ll never give up on your dreams.” ― Anonymous

32. “The most important person to keep your promises to, is yourself.” ― Anonymous

33. “Some things you don’t have to promise. You just do.” ― Rick Yancey

34. “The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.” ― William Lyon MacKenzie

35. “An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.” ― Mae West

36. “What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.” ― Lauren Oliver

37. “The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli

38. “Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.” ― William Penn

39. “A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.” ― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

40. “Promise is most given when the least is said.” ― George Chapman

41. “Don’t promise when you’re happy. Don’t reply when you’re angry and don’t decide when you’re sad.” ― Anonymous

42. “The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

43. “All promise outruns performance.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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