All promise outruns performance.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.  ~William Dean Howells

A politician is known by the promises he keeps.  ~ Famous Quotes

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.  ~Hal Borland

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is the rain.~ Arabian Proverb

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

Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling promise.~ German Proverb

Don’t expect from others what you can’t promise them yourself.~ Chinese Proverb

Don’t promise something when you are full of joy; don’t answer letters when you are full of anger.~ Chinese Proverb

Eggs and promises are easily broken.~ Japanese Proverb

Evening promises are like butter: morning comes, and it’s all melted.~ Moroccan Proverb

For every promise, there is price to pay.  ~Jim Rohn

From the promise to the deed is a day’s journey.~ Bulgarian Proverb

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

God promised me a fur coat and I’m already sweating.~ Polish Proverb

God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.~ Bulgarian Proverb

Go for it now.  The future is promised to no one.  ~Wayne Dyer

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~ Edgar Watson Howe

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.~ Traditional Proverb

He promised me earrings, but then only pierced my ears.~ Arabian Proverb

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

In the land of promise a man may die of hunger.~ Dutch Proverb

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.  ~Corrie Ten Boom

Life didn’t promise to be wonderful.  ~Teddy Pendergrass

Losers make promises they often break.  Winners make commitments they always keep.  ~Denis Waitley

Many promises impair confidence.~ Latin Proverb

Mother earth promised to tell her secrets to heaven.~ Serbian Proverb

Never promise a poor person, and never owe a rich one.~ Brazilian Proverb

No greater promisers than they who have nothing to give.~ Dutch Proverb

No pillow so soft as God’s promise.  ~ Famous Quotes

No pillows so soft as God’s Promise.~ Traditional Proverb

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.~ German Proverb

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.  ~Samuel Johnson

Promised berries will not fill the basket.~ Latvian Proverb

Promise is most given when the least is said.  ~George Chapman

Promise little and do a lot.~ Hebrew Proverb

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.  ~Jonathan Swift

Promises are like babies:  easy to make, hard to deliver. ~ Famous Quotes

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.  ~Norman Vincent Peale

Promises have legs. Only a gift has hands.~ German Proverb

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.~ Dutch Proverb

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.  ~Benjamin Franklin

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

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.  ~William Hazlitt

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.  ~Napoleon Bonaparte

The day cuts off the promise of the night.~ Egyptian Proverb

The day will wipe out all the promises of the night.~ Iraqi Proverb

The promise given was a necessity of the past:  the word broken is a necessity of the present.  ~Niccolo Machiavelli

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.  ~William Lyon MacKenzie

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.~ Gaelic Proverb

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

To threaten the brave with death is like promising water to a duck.~ Arabian Proverb

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

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.  ~Bernard M. Baruch

We make big promises to avoid little presents.~ French Proverb

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.  ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?  ~Chuck Palahniuk