Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

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.

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

Your word is your honor. If you say you're going to do something, then you need to do it.

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

I want to help people help themselves, not have government tell people what to do. I just don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you.

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.

Mama was a stickler on keeping your word. That's helped me to make the right decisions in so many situations. Because of that, I also think really hard before I make a decision because I know I'm going to have to see it through.

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

When we give it all, we can live with ourselves - regardless of the results.

For me, commitment boils down to honor.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

A bet is a bet and I always keep my word in the bet what I do.

It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

A lot of boys will let me down but a real man wouldn't do it like that.

They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.

I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.

I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.

Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.