414 Quotes About Promises

Unfinished promises are the one thing we’ll always have to live with.

Podia-se desejar uma tarde feliz, uma noite feliz, um dia inteiro feliz, no máximo. Mas um ano?

It was a vow we made those long years ago. Neither of us spoke of it afterwards, but it hung between us like a spider web, fragile and easy to break, but danged hard to get shed of once the threads took hold.

But that's the thing about promises, isn't it? They can't always be kept. No matter how good the intentions behind them are.

Promises not kept, plans which aren’t made are “Commitments” in fragments… - Cocoy McCoy -

Promises take many shapes, and the more … momentous they are, the more they might look like threats. All great promises are threats, I suppose, to the way things have been until that point, to some aspect of our lives, and we all suddenly become conservative, even though we want and need what the promise holds, and look forward to the promised change at the same time.

This is kind of a sticky situation, isn't it, Gurudas?" she says. "I told you two that if I caught either of you on my property again I'd expose a goodly amount of your innards to the fresh sea air. And I hate breaking promises. That's what whole of civilized society is founded upon, isn't it—promises?

If I was a private individual, I'd be more careful; but being as I'm a government, I'm privileged to make a God-damned fool of myself in any way I choose, especially by spending a lot more money than I've got or ever will have, and promising to do things that I ain't got a chance of doing.

Don't make promises which you can't keep!