Promise Quotes

Promise is most given when the least is said.
George Chapman

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

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

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

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
William Lyon MacKenzie

Never promise more than you can perform.
Publilius Syrus

All promise outruns performance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Edgar Watson Howe

A promise must never be broken.
Alexander Hamilton

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

Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson