Promise Quotes

Never promise more than you can perform. (Publilius Syrus)
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness. View quote
Stendhal
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. View quote
William Hazlitt
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards. (Livy)
Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. View quote
Helen Thomas
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years. View quote
Anthony Powell
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: Your tax dollar will go farther. View quote
Wernher von Braun
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. View quote
Marcel Proust
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. (Bill Cosby)
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise. View quote
Barbara Jordan
I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people. View quote
Lena Horne
Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. View quote
Henry David Thoreau