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Quotes about promises
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
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. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
Promise is most given when the least is said. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
All promise outruns performance. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
God never made a promise that was too good to be true. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
He loses his thanks who promises and delays. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
Eggs and oaths are easily broken. (Gyllenhaal Jake)
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