“Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.”
Norman Vincent Peale
Notable Quotes
“Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.”
Marilyn vos Savant
“Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.”
Lou Holtz
“Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
According to Emily Marks
Keeping promises is important in the continuation of happy and healthy relationships. Knowing you can trust someone is one of the key stepping stones to any relationship. We spend so much time making promises we can't keep, which just ends up hurting our loved ones. It doesn't matter how small the promise is. A promise is a promise.
Your promise could mean a world to someone else by Zenshoumuki
One cold night, there is a billionaire who met an old poor man while he walked out his house door. He called the poor man and said to him “don’t you feel cold being outside and not wearing anything?”
The old man replied “I don’t have it but I got used to that.” “Wait for me, I will enter my house now and bring one for you”, said the billionaire.
The poor man got so happy and said he will wait for him. The billionaire entered his house and suddenly received a call. He got busy for calls and work and forgot the poor man.
In the morning, he remembered the poor old man and he went out to search for him but he found him dead because of cold.
Beside the old man, the billionaire found a note saying, “When I didn’t have warm clothes, I had the power to fight the cold because I was used to that. But when you promised to help me, I got attached to your promise and that took my power of resisting.”
That teaches a lesson: you shouldn’t promise anything to anyone if you cannot keep it. Your promise might not mean anything to you but it could mean everything to someone else.
Bible Verses
A man who makes a vow to the Lord or makes a pledge under oath must never break it. He must do exactly what he said he would do. Numbers 30:2 NLT
No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said. Psalm 89:34 NLT
Additional Reading
Keep On Keeping on: 31 Days, 31 Promises To Bring More Love, Passion, And Hope Into Your Life by Danny Cohen
Point of Reflection
“Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.”
German Proverb