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
"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them."
– Thomas Fuller
"Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made."
- Edgar Watson Howe
"An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise."
- James Howell
"Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise."
- Washington
