Are You a Man (OR Woman) of Your Word?

I try to be Once I promised something, I will move heaven and earth to fulfill that promise. However, there are times when things are just beyond my control or when fulfilling a promise would cause greater damage than not fulfilling it. That would be a dilemma for me but I have to do what is right at that moment. Cheers!

You are right once you have a promise you should keep it. I always keep promises even if I have a hard time in fulfilling them I have to do my best in any way. Even if it is hard.

hello getbrowser! i also believe on the importance of integrity as well as on credibility... i can say that i a man in my words...i seldom give promises but whenever i give it, i make sure that i will do it... i really try my best to fulfill it! for me, its better not to give any promise if you are not sure if you can do it... i am always true to my words...coz i don't want to be tagged as a liar and its something that my parents taught me...

Generally speaking, I believe that I am a person who sticks to their word. I am not perfect, but I try at least to honour whatever I have promised. Sometimes things do get in the way and it is not possible to deliver what I have promised on time or I forget, but I usually get there in the end!

Generally, I am a man of my word, tho there have been instances to the contrary. But I try not to give it lightly, and have sometimes regretted doing so, but will keep it nonetheless because its the only thing I have of value because it is a reflection of me..Enjoy!

yes i am a person that do my promised....and i always keep my words of promised....

Yes I was raised the same way too, and I take pride in being a woman of my word. My mother used to always say, your word is your bond and if it can't be trusted neither can you. I live by that standard.

I do not make promises easily, because I don't like breaking them. I try to never promise something unless I have some idea of what I'm promising. I hate it when someone wants to tell me some deep dark secret but wants me to promise not to tell anyone before telling me it. I'm sorry, if you have a secret - keep it to yourself and DON'T ask me, badger me, want me to promise not to tell - its ANNOYING!

I aspire to be a person whose word can be trusted and I usually don’t make promises unless I know I can definitely keep them especially to my daughter! I don’t like it when people say they are going to do something and they know when they are making the promise that they won’t be keeping it, it’s something I really abhor in people along with folks who don’t listen when they are been spoken to! In regards to me...Well I’m perfect of course...Not! (LOL)

Having integretity and honoring your commitments is important. Without these no one will see you as reiable or trustworthy, but you should be that way for your own self.

Hi, i try to keep my promises, so, i am a woman who try to respect my words...but in life sometimes all depend from other person; but i hate when somebody don t keep his word; for sure. A person who don t respect his word, is nothing, of course in important situation, they can hurt others to much; they really don t deserve to be happy...God will give them what they deserve

We are used with the modern culture we had of not keeping the promises. It can't be denied that it's been a prevalent system in or world of lying and bluffing. It's kinda irritating sometimes, but sometimes you have to impose your own rules so that people would not abuse you, so i would impose my own rules of telling to my friends "let your yes be yes and your no be no".

I always try my best to keep my promise! And as you said, I don't keep promise easily! If I couldn't do it, I won't make the promise! And once I made the promise, I would keep it by whatever, even though I have more important thing, by the way, maybe I haven't meet the more important thing, so I haven't break my promise by now!

I try very hard to not make a promise that I can't keep. Discouragement and disappointment follow when you break your word to someone. After that trust is lost also. Relationships become strained and end over the simplest promises that are broken. If I don't think I can live up to the challenge of my word, I try not to give it.

Hello Getbrowser. Yes, as a little kid, I kept saying 'promise' for this, and 'promise' for that, and that went on and on. But once I realised what the work promise meant, I just stopped using it. I don't know when I last used the word. If one commits themselves with a promise, then I think the person should live upto their committment.

I learned many years ago during my training as a therapist and Zen practitioner, the integrity is one of the most powerful assets we can develop as human beings. Because, if we break a promise to another person, we are letting ourselves down more than the other persone. We are training our mind to be unreliable at best, and dishonest at worst. Each broken promise to ourselves and/or others, have subtle effects on our life energy, and our ability to be happy. I see integrity not as something easy, but as challenge. There are bound to be conflicts between one promise and something else that we strongly desire or need to do. If we keep the promise, we become spiritually stronger, if we break the promise, although we may not realize it, we become a little weaker, thus building karma, that has to be paid. It makes no difference if we a good "excuse" for breaking a promise, energy doesn't care about excuses. If we let a stone drop from a great height, gravity takes over. If we break a promise, a different sort gravity takes over, and it is added to our karma. Building strong integrity has been at the root of my work as a therapist for the last 30 years or so. All I can add is that strong integrity can really turn lives around, making huge positive differences. - Derek

getbrowser I am indeed a woman of my word.for one thing I do not make a promise if I know darned well I cannot keep it.instead I will then offer another solution to the other person's problem. If I make a promise it will be kept and if in spite of everything I cannot make good on this promise I will let the person know and we will figure out something else to make things still work. I do not just break a promise ever.

I am a person who keeps my words. If not, I would not say it at all. That is our worth-our words. We must be able to walk the talk. If we want to be trusted, we must do what is expected of us. Doing otherwise is a mockery of our own self-esteem.

I would like to think that I am a woman of my word. I grew up in with a father who promised me all sorts of things but he never followed through and until now he is the same. That said, at a young age, I realized the value of ones word and so today, I tend to be careful with making commitments. If I would agree to do something for someone and I'm not sure of it, I would say, "I can't make promises" if I really can't.

I have made promises and broken them, and people have broken their promises to me. I rarely make promises anymore, unless I know absolutely that I can keep them.