85 Broken Promises Quotes about Fake People and Relationships

Promises reflect a sacred bond, a promise we make to others to support and aid them when they are in need.

They are our word of honor, a guarantee that we will be there for them, extending a helping hand or offering consolation in their time of need.

However, when these promises are broken, the consequences may be devastating.

Broken promises may cause a slew of problems, generating anxiety and, all too frequently a terrible feeling of disappointment.

They have the potential to destroy trust, engender animosity and even shatter relationships.

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Disillusionment caused by broken promises may plant seeds of mistrust, leading us to question the integrity of the individual who broke their word.

In summary, although making promises is an essential element of human connection it is also critical to keep them.

Keeping promises demonstrates our character by demonstrating that we cherish and respect the confidence placed in us by others.


Best Broken Promises Quotes

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

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

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. ~ William Hazlitt.

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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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ~ Warren Buffett.

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the world’s indifference to spilled Arab blood. ~ Susan Abulhawa.

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Deep Broken Promises Quotes

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. ~ George Bernard Shaw.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. ~ Robert Frost.

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

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. ~ Albert Camus.

Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~ Danish Proverb.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ~ Norman Douglas.

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Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women’s soul? ~ Brian Perkins.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals. ~ Roger McGough.

Thoughtful Broken Promises Quotes

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

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. ~ Aeschylus.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character. ~ Cal Thomas.

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. ~ Hannah Arendt.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. ~ Thomas Fuller.

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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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~ German Proverb.

Famous Broken Promises Quotes

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. ~ Abigail Adams.

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Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind. ~ Douglas MacArthur.

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

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ~ William Osler.

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I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. ~ John F. Kennedy.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. ~ Chief Joseph.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. ~ Ovid.

Promises are worse than lies. You don’t just make them believe, you also make them hope. ~ Marilyn Monroe.

Meaningful Broken Promises Quotes

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. ~ Mohandas Gandhi.

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Trust is important. But once a promise is broken ‘sorry’ means nothing. ~ Drake.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound. ~ Xunzi.

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.

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This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people. ~ John Connolly.

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.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed. ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib.

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

Profound Broken Promises Quotes

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

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It does not require many words to speak the truth. ~ Chief Joseph.

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.

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 mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing. ~ Unknown.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. ~ Richard Paul Evans.

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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~ E. W. Howe.

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept. ~ Sidney Sheldon.

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.

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Sometimes your pledges become your problems. ~ Amit Kalantri.

Some promises are better left unsaid. ~ Ashlee Simpson.

Top Broken Promises Quotes

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ~ Tennessee Williams.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. ~ Miguel de Cervantes.

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Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them … ~ Stephen Richards.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli.

One promises much, to avoid giving little. ~ Luc de Clapiers.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don’t keep them. ~ Isabelle Adjani.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they’re better off working. ~ John Engler.

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Never trust a man when he’s in love, drunk, or running for office. ~ Shirley MacLaine.

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.

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~ Edmund Fuller.

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Promises are about as good as already chewed-up gum. ~ Ce Johnson.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken. ~ Martha Stewart.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. ~ Quintilian.

When a man takes an oath… he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. ~ Robert Bolt.

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Don’t make promises you can’t keep. ~ Howard Bryant.

It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises. ~ Reince Priebus.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them. ~ Sarah McLachlan.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed. ~ Charlotte Bronte.

Don’t make any promises that you can’t keep. ~ Ann Marie Aguilar.

Powerful Broken Promises Quotes

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken. ~ Laozi.

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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. ~ Chief Joseph.

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

Don’t fix what’s not broken. ~ Robert Atkins.

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Never promise more than you can perform. ~ Publilius Syrus.

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

Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it’s going to happen. ~ James MacDonald.

Inspiring Broken Promises Quotes

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It’s easy to be led astray when you’re so broken. People take advantage of you. ~ Willie Aames.

It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office. ~ Shirley MacLaine.

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Anton Chekhov.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ~ Abraham Lincoln.

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Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned. ~ Ovid.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. ~ Edmund Burke.


So these were the 85 top quotes about Broken Promises.

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