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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
-Chinese Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
-Danish proverb
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No pillows so soft as God's Promise.
-Anon.
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
-Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
-Proverb
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There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
-Proverb
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
-Aeschylus
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Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
-Herbert Agar
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
-Hannah Arendt
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Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
-Hannah Arendt
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When a man takes an oath...,he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-Robert Bolt
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If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.
-Lewis Carroll
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It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.
-Oswald Chambers
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Promise is most given when the least is said.
-George Chapman
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Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
-Norman Douglas
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All promise outruns performance.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
-Thomas Fuller
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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
-Thomas Fuller
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Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
-Thomas Fuller
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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
-Thomas Fuller
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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Books about Promises
