How far would you go to keep a promise?

well i rarely make a promise to anyone. i use the phrase "i'll try" instead. to me, a promise is a promise. there is no room for discussion or negotiation. if i made a promise, i'll go to all lengths to fulfill it. even if it means i have to pay every single cent i own. this is the reason why i rarely promise anyone anything. i also try not to make others promise me anything. i will be sorely disappointed if a promise is broken.

when people can't kept their promise i think there is no difference with a liar .. I never makes a promise that easily ... because when you can't keep the promise with the person, than you may hurt their feelings, and because of it, so i better not to make a promise easily

Promises are meant to be broken?? Promises are just a kind of delay to whatever things that should be done now?? Promises are to be forever when it's forgotten just after a period of time?? lol =D So, what is promise?? Actually, promise is just a reassurance of things and feelings only.. It's not that important as doing it in actions.. Everybody is able to promise, but not everybody is able to hold their promise.. So in the end, i will rather not promise anything but to prove that i can do it, right away ^_^ haha =D

My husband is a person who makes promises he can't keep, but I believe his intentions are good. He MEANS what he's saying as he's promising things, but doesn't think them through to ensure that he's ABLE to keep them. I can't count the number of times I've been disappointed by him because of something he's promised me but never fulfilled. I gave him almost my last penny to start his business up (close to $14,000.00) because he PROMISED me I'd get it all back, with interest, within four weeks. Well, that was 8 months ago and I haven't seen a penny. I lent him $20,000.00 to put down on a new truck because he really needed it and he promised to give that money back to me. That was over 2 years ago and I have not seen a penny of THAT money, either. He promised to build me a new deck with a sunroom when we moved here in May 2007. He put work off to design the deck and sunroom. He spent time getting quotes for the materials needed. Guess where those designs are? Yep, still on the computer. I even went out and bought tiles for the floor of the sunroom because he had me convinced that the deck was going to be built THAT YEAR! (The tiles were on sale and I loved them so I thought, why wait until we need them when they're half-priced right now?) The tiles are piled up in the garage, gathering dust. He promised me, before we moved here, that he would be helping me with planting all the fruit and nut trees, plus help with the vegetable garden each year. Nope, hasn't happened. Oh, he dug a few holes for a few trees, but that's the extent of the help I've received from him. I cut the grass, too! He doesn't seem to want any part of it since we moved here. I ALWAYS keep my promises! When I make a promise, it's because I've thought about the situation from every angle I can think of to ensure that I'm able to keep that promise. Too many promises are made on the spur of the moment without any thought going into them. Everyone who knows me knows that I'm good for my word. Unfortunately, I've lost faith in my husband and don't believe any promises he makes to me any more. I've been disappointed too many times by him to be able to continue to believe him. I have, however, learned a valuable lesson. I'll never lend him any money ever again unless he pays back to me all the money he's borrowed. (It's over $100,000.00 that he owes me right now. I doubt I'll ever see that money again.)

Promises are very important to me. I don't make them unless I intend to keep them. I think there are a few things that define us and our word is one of the big ones.

Promise should be a permanent thing, once youpromise, it's gonna be forever. That's what I think.

i always keep my promise as i wan't my friends to keep their promises too..i don't want to lose my trust to those people around me..i want a healthy environment..i don't want to be angry with anybody as i know myself very well..it's very diffucult to fix the relationship if trust is not there..and the main ingredient of making promises is trusting each other..

ahgong, Napoleon Bonaparte once said: "The best way to keep one's word is not to give it." I do not think we should ever trivial with our words and we should always keep it once it is said. IMO, people today seldom keep their words and it would really be a shame if these very people are making promises. I prefer to be a man of my words for Denis Waitley once said: "Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. " I would keep to my words once given even if it is going to cost me. So, to this day I have barely made promises more than my 10 fingers. What's the use of promising when I cannot keep my words. I just conclude an interesting observation from Carl Jung: "The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition." Have a nice day and it has been interesting here.

I keep a promise as long as I can. I only break it if I can no longer fulfill it. But I make sure I make up and be really so sorry. I hate broken promises. Because I know it hurts so deeply.

Hmm, I remembered I answered a thread that's similar to this not long ago, well, anyway...Here we go again? AhahaI don't like to simply promise anybody anything. If I say I'll do something, then I'll do it. If not, I won't even mention a word to raise hopes for others. Basically it's about integrity as our word must carry weight. I'm the type that what you see is what you get, my YES is YES, my NO is NO. So I guess I'm plain blunt huh? HahahaThere are too many irresponsible people around so I won't join in to add to the number? Haha

if i make a promise i fully intend on keeping it and unless it becomes really unreasonable i will do anything to keep it.. otherwise it would eat me alive!!

I do make promises. I always do what I have promise. But in case I cant able to do it I would rather tell it right away and not to give a promise.

as for myself, i can keep a secret for a lifetime. Whatever happen if it is secret.. its secret. And this ability is good and im applying it in the company i am with. We have this committe, and i am part of it as a jury for a crime commited within the company, amongst co-employee, superiors and staffs. And as a commitment, we should keep every incident confidential. Nobody should leak it outside the committee. And it sure helps me

I don't make promises very often because of that old saying "promises are meant to be broken", but on the occassions that I do make promises, I try my hardest to keep them. I've noticed that alot of people do make promises for the sake of saying "i promise", that's why I prefer to give someone my word over a promise, because your word is more stronger than just a promise. People can lose alot of respect for you if you go back on your word, and I don't want that, so I always keep my word.