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Inspiring Broken Promises Quotes
- “Promises and pie-crust 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
- “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” ~ Albert Camus
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“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.” ~ John Connolly
- “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
- “Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.” ~ Edmund Fuller
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“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.” ~ Chief Joseph
- “But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.” ~ Robert Frost
- “We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “Somewhere in between all the mind games, lies and seduction…I fell for you. Somewhere in between all the broken promises, manipulation and heartaches…I got over you. But, I guess I fibbed a few times too. Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby, here I am without you, and I survived.” ~ Lil Wayne
- “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
- “We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” ~ Chief Joseph
- “One promises much, to avoid giving little.” ~ Luc de Clapiers
- “The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.” ~ William Hazlitt
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“Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.” ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
- “Don’t make promises you can’t keep.” ~ Howard Bryant
- “Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.” ~ Simone de Beauvoir
- “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
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“Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.” ~ Thomas Fuller
- “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.” ~ James M. Barrie
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“Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.” ~ Buffalo Bill
- “If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
- “I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn’t been broken, but I don’t know of anyone whose heart hasn’t been broken.” ~ Lucinda Williams
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“Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.” ~ Thomas Fuller
- “Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” ~ Tennessee Williams
- “Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.” ~ Abigail Adams
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“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “When a man takes an oath… he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.” ~ Robert Bolt
- “The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “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
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“actions speak louder than words” ~ Becca Fitzpatrick
- “It’s easy to be led astray when you’re so broken. People take advantage of you.” ~ Willie Aames
- “The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.” ~ Xunzi
- “The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.” ~ John Burroughs
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“America’s doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.” ~ Mike Ferguson
- “I can’t think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.” ~ Mary Hart
- “Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.” ~ Thomas Willis
- “Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.” ~ Hannah Arendt
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“Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.” ~ Ajay Devgan
- “Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” ~ Barack Obama
- “I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.” ~ Christopher Columbus
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“In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don’t keep them.” ~ Isabelle Adjani
- “My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.” ~ Barack Obama
- “Never trust a man when he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.” ~ Shirley MacLaine , Broken promises quotes love
- “Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.” ~ E. W. Howe
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“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.” ~ Aeschylus
- “Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.” ~ Barack Obama
- “I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.” ~ Barack Obama
- “God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It’s always the rest of us who get broken in half.” ~ Paddy Chayefsky
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“Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.” ~ Richard Paul Evans
- “And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.” ~ Barack Obama
- “You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.” ~ Roger McGough
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“I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point after the original Animals had broken up.” ~ Noel Redding
- “We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they’re better off working.” ~ John Engler
- “Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.” ~ Ovid
