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title: "19 Promises Kept Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 19 Promises Kept quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Promises Kept sayings and thoughts."
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> [The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/the-reason-so-many-promises-are-not-kept-is-the-same-as-the-reason/)

[Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/)

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> [If the person itself change who care about the promises kept or broken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nishan-panwar/if-the-person-itself-change-who-care-about-the-promises-kept-or-broken/)

[Nishan Panwar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nishan-panwar/)

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> [When promises are not kept,close friends are lost...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/when-promises-are-not-kept-close-friends-are-lost/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Promises Made and kept Forgotten in keyless chambers Dusty with age and neglect Promises - that once were, Still are, Will always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/akanksha-singh/promises-made-and-kept-forgotten-in-keyless-chambers-dusty-with-age/)

[Akanksha Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/akanksha-singh/)

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> [I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-r-holland/i-testify-that-bad-days-come-to-an-end-that-faith-always-triumphs-and/)

[Jeffrey R. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-r-holland/)

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> [Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/promises-are-not-to-be-kept-if-the-keeping-of-them-is-to-prove/)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/)

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> [“ Happily-ever-afters don't come in happily-every-days . They are found at the end of challenges-ever-met, promises-ever-kept, and tears-ever-wept.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-e-goodrich/happily-ever-afters-don-t-come-in-happily-every-days-they-are-found/)

[Richelle E. Goodrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-e-goodrich/)

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> [I have made it my mission to ensure that promises made to our American heroes are promises kept, and transparency is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronny-jackson/i-have-made-it-my-mission-to-ensure-that-promises-made-to-our/)

[Ronny Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronny-jackson/)

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> [Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/promises-are-not-to-be-kept-if-the-keeping-of-them-would-prove/)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/)

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> [One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-pearce/one-of-the-things-i-m-always-proud-of-is-promises-made-promises-kept/)

[Russell Pearce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-pearce/)

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> [“And promises, once made, must be kept, and if later you regret them, you should have been more careful in making them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dot-hutchison/and-promises-once-made-must-be-kept-and-if-later-you-regret-them-you/)

[Dot Hutchison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dot-hutchison/)

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> [Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/science-has-always-promised-two-things-not-necessarily-related-an/)

[Joseph Wood Krutch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-wood-krutch/)

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> [“I lie in the dirt and pretend his words about my love don’t hurt, but they slice me like the ice cold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/inger-iversen/i-lie-in-the-dirt-and-pretend-his-words-about-my-love-don-t-hurt-but/)

[Inger Iversen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/inger-iversen/)

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> [That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/that-was-the-year-my-twenty-eighth-when-i-was-discovering-that-not/)

[Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/)

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> [Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ban-ki-moon/between-now-and-2015-we-must-make-sure-that-promises-made-become/)

[Ban Ki-moon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ban-ki-moon/)

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> [“The water can't turn back and choose another bed, just as promises now cannot be kept. No drowned man comes up again…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sa-a-stani-i/the-water-can-t-turn-back-and-choose-another-bed-just-as-promises-now/)

[Saša Stanišić](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sa-a-stani-i/)

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> [“to lean back into it like in a chair the color of the sun as you listen to lazy piano music and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/to-lean-back-into-it-like-in-a-chair-the-color-of-the-sun-as-you/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [“All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom windows, because I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/all-i-ever-did-to-that-apartment-was-hang-fifty-yards-of-yellow/)

[Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/joan-didion-497_curtains_all-i-ever-did-to-that-apartment-was-han_2965404.jpg)

> [Under the House Republican leadership of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, promises have been made, and promises are being kept.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santos/under-the-house-republican-leadership-of-speaker-kevin-mccarthy/)

[George Santos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santos/)

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