40 Broken Promises Quotes
- Actions speak louder than words. – Becca Fitzpatrick
- Liars make the best promises. – Pierce Brown
- Better a broken promise than none at all. – Mark Twain
- Eggs and oaths are easily broken. – Danish Proverb
- Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. – Thomas Fuller
- A promise made is a debt unpaid. – Robert Service
- Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. – Benjamin Franklin
- Promises mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing. – Unknown
- Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. – German Proverb
- Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. – Dutch Proverb
- Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. – Albert Camus
- The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it. Someone makes a promise, and then they break it. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. – Edgar Watson Howe
- Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – William Hazlitt
- Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Oaths are but words, and words but wind. – Samuel Butler
- There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. – Gaelic Proverb
- But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing. – Jussi Adler-Olsen
- This world is full of broken things: Broken hearts, broken promises, broken people. – John Connolly
- It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office. – Shirley MacLaine
- All promise outruns performance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Some promises are better left unsaid. – Ashlee Simpson
- Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift
- I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. – John F. Kennedy
- One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. – English Proverb
- The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. – Napoleon Bonaparte
- Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned. – Ovid
- Broken promises , like a broken glass, is hard to replace. – Wille Mae Gaskin
- When a man takes an oath… he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then – he needn’t hope to find himself again. – Robert Bolt
- Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – William Hazlitt
- For every promise, there is price to pay. – Jim Rohn
- Never promise more than you can perform. – Publilius Syrus
- Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. – Mahathma Gandhi
- Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. – Norman Vincent Peale
- He loses his thanks who promises and delays. – Unknown
- We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. – Abraham Lincoln
- Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them . – Stephen Richards
- Sometimes your pledges become your problems. – Amit Kalantri
- The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccolo Machiavelli