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From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.
Epictetus
Commit to ceasing self-disappointing behavior. Disassociate yourself from the majority. Resolve to be remarkable and take action - promptly.
2.
Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.
J. R. R. Tolkien
4.
Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.
William Arthur Ward
5.
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows.
Pope Innocent III
7.
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
Mahatma Gandhi
8.
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
Joycelyn Elders
9.
I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.
Julia Quinn
10.
Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare
12.
The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
Beatrice Lillie
13.
I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
Deb Caletti
16.
A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.
Mahatma Gandhi
17.
To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.
Mike Mason
18.
how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.
Elinor Glyn
19.
I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste?
C. J. Anderson
20.
Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.
Chris Patten
21.
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
William Penn
23.
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
Andre Gide
24.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Tertullian
25.
Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.
Rumi
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Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
Lord Kelvin
28.
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi
29.
New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.
John Dryden
30.
I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?
Pierre Loti
33.
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
34.
A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
Mahatma Gandhi
35.
We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.
Mother Teresa
36.
Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
Voltaire
37.
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
George Sand
40.
What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?
Jane Yolen
41.
I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?
Karen Hawkins
43.
Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
Mahatma Gandhi
44.
Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.
Myles Munroe
45.
All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
Samuel Johnson
46.
The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.
Mahatma Gandhi
48.
When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.
Rick Perry
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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
Mahatma Gandhi
50.
Approval of what is approved of
Is as false as a well-kept vow.
John Betjeman