promises, promises...promise only what you can deliver.then deliver more than you promise

teI just want to ask....how many of us have kept all our promises...and is it true that a promise is only a comfort to a fool? Well here are some famous quotes about promises...

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

~ProverbA promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ~Bill Cosby

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality. ~Harold Geneen

A promise is a debt. ~ProverbThose that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ~Jean Jacques Rousseau

God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine. ~David Nicholas

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. ~Peter F. Drucker

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. ~Karl Popper

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ~Samuel JohnsonA liar is always lavish of oaths. ~Pierre Corneille

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. ~John Burroughs

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ~Marcel Proust

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ~Simone Weil

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill 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

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ~Niccolo Machiavelli

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. ~William Penn

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. ~Mohandas Gandhi

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. ~Nikita Khrushchev

Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb

One promises much, to avoid giving little. ~Marquis de VauvenarguesGo for it now.

The future is promised to no one. ~Wayne Dyer