This is the kind of life lesson that really doesn't need much elaboration, so this missive could end right here. However, I don't wish to disappoint my vast audience, so I have found several quotes to add some flavour to the topic. For example:
- It is a bad thing to break a promise, but it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.
- Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
- Deliver more than you promise.
- Promises are like crying babies in theatres, they should be carried out at once.
- Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
- Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
- The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
- The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- Promise yourself, no matter how hard it gets, you'll never give up on your dreams.
- There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
- Under promise. Over deliver.
- Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once, they diminish day by day.
- Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.
- Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
I have always tried to live my life by keeping my word. I think I have been successful in that regard. I give my parents credit for instilling my core values and honesty was always ranked very highly. My Catholic upbringing taught me as a child that it was wrong to lie and I continue to believe it as an adult.
Breaking a promise is breaking a trust. And once a trust is broken there is no way to repair it. You can only lose trust once!
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