46 Promise Quotes

Promises hold a special place in our lives—they are more than mere words; they embody commitments, trust, and hope. Whether made between friends, family members, colleagues, or even to ourselves, promises often serve as powerful motivators and sources of inspiration. In this post, we have meticulously curated a collection of the top 46 promise quotes that capture the essence of what it means to give and keep a promise. These quotes, penned by sages, poets, and thinkers from various walks of life, will hopefully resonate with your own experiences and perhaps even inspire you to honor the promises that matter most. Join us as we explore these timeless words of wisdom and reflect upon the significant impact promises have on our lives.

1. “A promise made is a debt unpaid” - Robert W. Service

2. “I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses...” - J.K. Rowling

3. “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. “The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.” - Hannah Arendt

5. “One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!” - Dr. C. Moorer

6. “I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.” - Stephenie Meyer

7. “Promise has faith as premise. Only men of faith can promise.” - Toba Beta

8. “Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!” I yelled back.But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again.See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.I looked him in the eye. "I will always love you."Then I plunged the stake into his chest.It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one."That’s what I was supposed to say. . .” he gasped out.Those were his last words.” - Richelle Mead

9. “and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,” - Ray Bradbury

10. “Someone knocked me down; I pushed Brinker over a small slope; someone was trying to tackle me from behind. Everywhere there was the smell of vitality in clothes, the vital something in wool and flannel and corduroy which spring releases. I had forgotten that this existed, this smell which instead of the first robin, or the first bud or leaf, means to me that spring has come. I had always welcomed vitality and energy and warmth radiating from thick and sturdy winter clothes. It made me happy, but I kept wondering about next spring, about whether khaki, or suntans or whatever the uniform of the season was, had this aura of promise in it. I felt fairly sure it didn't.” - John Knowles

11. “Hope and faith underlie a promise,and love energizes men to realize it.” - Toba Beta

12. “For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations....Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle.” - Alain De Botton

13. “Jangan pernah percaya 100% dengan janji siapapun! Tagih dan dapat 90% saja pun sudah lebih dari cukup.” - Toba Beta

14. “Your promise is your liability.” - Toba Beta

15. “Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.” - James T. Mccay

16. “Lihat, ini Arok, yang tetap mempertahankan Tumapel. Dia dan pasukannya akan mempertahankannya sampai titik darah terakhir. Bukan karena imbalan uang, emas dan perak dan singgasana. Hanya karena kesetiaan pada janji.” - Pramoedya Ananta Toer

17. “The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever made to me. It was a touch that said, I have your back and I am here for you. If a girl wasn't careful, she could fall in love with a touch like that.” - Justina Chen Headley

18. “Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur people stop thinking they matter. It does matter though. Every loss matters.” - Natalie Valdes

19. “The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.” - Sheila Walsh

20. “Say yes, Jenny. Promise you'll marry me. Promise you'll still be here, driving me crazy and loving me when we're little and old and surrounded by grandchildren. Promise that you'll let me love you until I take my last breath. Promise.” - Maggie Osborne

21. “[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.” - Tahir Shah

22. “[Henry] felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he had been directed to gain, no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing feared of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted.” - Jane Austen

23. “Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be."Foolhardy?" Kelsier asked with a laugh. "that wasn't foolhardy - that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things I'm planning to do!Dockson stood for a moment then he laughed too. "By the Lord Ruler, it's good to have you back, kell! I'm afraid I've grown rather boring during the last few years""We'll fix that" Kelsier promised.” - Brandon Sanderson

24. “Promise me we'll stay together, okay?" His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me.""I promise," I say.Behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.” - Lauren Oliver

25. “If I catch you making eyes at Hunter Chenier tonight, it's over between us.' She looked over her shoulder. 'That a promise?” - Nina Bruhns

26. “For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much aspersonal choice.” - Ann Aguirre

27. “There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.” - Toba Beta

28. “I will be loyal to my Clan above everything. What I want doesn't matter. The Clan must always come first.” - Erin Hunter

29. “...if you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ...” - John Geddes

30. “Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: 'I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.” - Mark Twain

31. “Wherever it takes me, good to know in the end, it’ll lead back to you.” - Kristen Ashley

32. “It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make choices in life and I choose you.My heart belongs to you. And I'm not asking for it back, even if you won't want it anymore. I'm just asking for a chance to have your again. I promise I'll be more careful with it this time.” - J. Sterling

33. “But I want to be near you always," he reminded her."But you'll lose everyone else, and...""I want forever with you." Seth lifted her chin so he was able to look directly into her eyes. "The rest will fall into place if I can be with you.” - Melissa Marr

34. “You cry, girl. You cry all you want, and when you're through and all this pain is nothing but a memory, I will find a way to make you smile. Do you hear me China Brown? That's a promise from me to you.” - Sharon Sala

35. “We'll see Heaven together. I promise with all my heart I'll never leave you alone.” - Stacey T. Hunt

36. “Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it.” - Whipplesnaith

37. “Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.” - Robert W. Service

38. “Love meant hope. Without love, life held no promise.” - Christie Craig

39. “...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.” - Andy Stanley

40. “Don't you dare weep," he commanded."You've broken my heart.""I'll fix it later.” - Julie Garwood

41. “a sincere promise, coupled with a helping hand, can bring hope where before there had been only despair.” - Richard Sagor

42. “Missy could fall down and hurt herself, even if I'm walking right there beside her. That doesn't mean that I allowed it to happen. She knows, as far as unconditional love, I'll pick her up and I'll carry her. I'll try to heal her. I'll cry when she cries. And I'll rejoice when she is well. In all the moments of my life, God has been right there beside me. The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen. It's His promise that He'll be there with us when they do.” - Clark Davis Love Comes Softly

43. “Search your heart. He's there, Kate. You can ignore Him, try to run and hide from Him, even convince yourself that He's not there, but He promised us that he would never leave or forsake us." He tipped his head to the side. "Kind of like how you promised not to leave Maggie when she was going through labor. Maggie still had to go through it. You couldn't take her pain away, but you were there to hold her hand, to encourage her, to make sure she knew she wasn't alone, and when it was all said and done, something beautiful came out of what she endured.” - Jen Stephens

44. “Today’s man should do more than just talk; he should act. He should do more than just promise; he should deliver.” - Steve Maraboli

45. “It was just a lie that seemed real.It was a promise that was never meant to be true.The forever that had a deadline.It felt like falling in love, but it was falling in aheartbreak café!” - Moffat Machingura

46. “Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.” - Robin Maxwell