Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Commitment Quotes

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information...

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information...

Deny Self for Self's sake

Deny Self for Self's sake

A penny saved is a penny earned.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women,...

Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women,...

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory,...

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory,...

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which...

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which...

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough...

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough...

The sparks fly in his face.

The sparks fly in his face.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either...

If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either...

Hunger is the best pickle.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man...

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man...

There was never a good war or a bad peace.

There was never a good war or a bad peace.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what...

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what...

All war represents a failure of diplomacy

All war represents a failure of diplomacy