The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. Jean Jacques Rousseau
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. Napoleon Bonaparte
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. Thomas Fuller
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. Hannah Arendt
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. Carl Jung
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. Herbert Agar
Vote for the man who promises least. He’ll be the least disappointing. Bernard Baruch
The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today. W L Mackenzie King
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. Denis Waitley