75 Keep Your Word Quotes To Inspire You To Honor Them

“Never promise more than you can perform.” ― Publilius Syrus

“I don’t trust words, I trust actions.”

“Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises.”- Derrick Bell

“Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.”- Brian Tracy

“And you can’t step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.”

“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep….”

“If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.” – Austin O’ Malley

“Keep your word. When you say you will do something and don’t do it, you teach others (including yourself) that you cannot be trusted.”

“If you can’t keep your word to someone…keep your mouth shut!”

“All you have in business is your reputation, so it’s very important that you keep your word.”

“The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.”- Brian Tracy

“Keeping your word is not as easy as saying it. Proving it? That’s another story.”

“The greatest thing you have to offer is your word, but only if you plan on keeping it.”

“Keep your commitments…even when you don’t want to. Nothing is more important than keeping your word.”

“Oversimplifying somewhat, honoring your word as we define it means you either keep your word (do what you said you would do and by the time you said you would do it), or as soon as you know that you will not, you say that you will not to those who were counting on your word and clean up any mess caused by not ...

... keeping your word.” – Werner Erhard

“Keep your words. This pain is no life.” “You only feel pain because you’re alive, boy!” the keeper thundered. “This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!”- Ted Dekker

“If you say you’re going to do something, then do it. Otherwise keep your lies to yourself.” – Michael L. Georgoveanu

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.” – Sara Gruen

“Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.”- Zig Ziglar

“We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.”- Bob Ehrlich

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

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your ...

... values become your destiny.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.”

“Keep every promise you make, and only make promises you can keep.” ― Anthony Hitt

“Stand on yours words more than on your limbs.”

“People ask me why is it so hard to trust people. I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise.”

“Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and never forget a friend.”

“Sounds like a pie crust promise, easily made and easily broken.”

“Keeping your word is very important.” – George Bronner

“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

“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”

“I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.” ― John F. Kennedy

“Keeping your word will often cost you something, but it’s worth it to be described as a committed person.”

“There is no greater reward than honoring your word. It leaves both you and the person you gave it to a feeling of fulfillment.”

“I am a man of my word… and that word is “unreliable.”- Demetri Martin

“Keeping your word is one of the smallest yet impactful things you can do to build trust in your marriage.”

“Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“Not keeping your word is a quick way to get completely cut off.”

“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

“Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you’ll have to eat them, you can swallow it well.”- Oprah Winfrey

“I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man’s word should be as good as his bond; that character — not wealth or power or position — is of supreme worth.” ― J.D. Rockefeller

“People with good intentions make promises. People with good character keep them.”

“Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.”

“When you don’t keep your word, you lose credibility.” – Robin Sharma

“There is no greater fraud than a broken word.”

“Promises are like crying babies in a theater; they should be carried out at once.” ― Norman Vincent Peale

“If you tell me you’re going to do something, I remember. if you don’t do it, I remember. We can still be cool, but your words will mean less.”

“You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.”- Sivananda

“Your word is your honor. If you say you’re going to do something, then you need to do it.”- Joyce Meyer

“When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.”

“Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.”- Thomas Fuller

“If you say something and back it up with your actions, you will provide the ‘proof’ for people who are listening to you, and they will much more willingly follow your lead.”- Jim Rohn

“Word is bond. If you say something about anything, make sure your actions back it up!”

“You can’t be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can’t serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can’t step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.”- Bill Courtney

“Honoring your word shows people that you value their feelings, and in turn, they will value yours.”

“Don’t destroy the works of your hands by not keeping your word.”

“Sure sign of spiritual growth: Keeping your word is more important than keeping up appearances.”

“Learn to keep your words.” – S. Koul

“When you make a commitment, you build hope. When you keep it, you build trust.”

“Honor was never about taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. ...

... Keeping your word.” ― Mercedes Lackey

“Never make a promise that you’re not 100% committed to fulfill. Not to your friends, partner or yourself.”

“Your word…is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.”

“Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.” ― Lou Holtz

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

“Your word is your bond, and you do what you say and keep your promise.” – Melania Trump

“Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.”- Harry S. Truman

“The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.”

“I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.”- John F. Kennedy

“Some people still make promises and keep their word. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.” ― Lewis B. Smedes

“My word is my bond.”

“Keeping your word shouldn’t be a chore; it should be a privilege.”

“Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.”

“Don’t make promises you don’t intend to keep.”

“Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.”

“Respect my time. Match my effort. Keep your word. Always be honest. Stay consistent.”