Why people break their promises and how we can do something. Inspirational broken promises quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Most Famous Broken Promises Quotes
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. – Richard Paul Evans
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift
Eggs and oaths are easily broken. – Danish Proverb
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. – Edgar Watson Howe
Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them… – Stephen Richards
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. – Chief Joseph
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – William Hazlitt
Some promises are better left unsaid. – Ashlee Simpson
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. – Norman Vincent Peale
He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards. – Aleatha Romig, Consequences
Liars make the best promises. – Pierce Brown
Sometimes your pledges become your problems. – Amit Kalantri
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. – Albert Camus
But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing. – Jussi Adler-Olsen
Promises mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing. – unknown
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. – Richard Paul Evans, Promise Me
Oaths are but words, and words but wind. – Samuel Butler
He loses his thanks who promises and delays. – Proverb
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. – Jane Rule
A promise made is a debt unpaid. – Robert Service
Don’t make any promises that you can’t keep. – Ann Marie Aguilar
For every promise, there is price to pay. – Jim Rohn
Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. – German Proverb
Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. – Dag Hammarskjold
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. – Thomas Fuller
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations. – Anthony Liccione
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccolo Machiavelli
When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. – English Proverb
Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to. – Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office. – Shirley MacLaine
This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people. – John Connolly
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. – Benjamin Franklin
When we have no reason to be happy we often think to end ourselves, We often think we have no one in this world, it happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe. – Debolina
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. – Gaelic Proverb
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. – Warren Buffett
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. – Mohandas Gandhi
Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both. – C.J. Hill, Slayers
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. – Dutch Proverb
When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. – Edmund Fuller
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. – Abraham Lincoln
And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to. – Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
All promise outruns performance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – William Hazlitt
Some people will leave you soon no matter how, but it’s not the ending of your story, it’s just the ending of their role in your story. cause life goes on, and you should just expect damage from others. – Marouane LAASSAFAR
Better a broken promise than none at all. – Mark Twain
Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise. – Anthony Liccione
When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope. – Yasmine El Rashidi
