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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
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Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.
William Arthur Ward
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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
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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.
Julia Quinn
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Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
Joycelyn Elders
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Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare
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The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
Beatrice Lillie
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I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
Deb Caletti
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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
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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
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A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
William Penn
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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
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Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.
Rumi
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi
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New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.
John Dryden
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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
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What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
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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
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Tertullian
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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
Voltaire
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The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
George Sand
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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.
Mother Teresa
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What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?
Jane Yolen
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I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?
Karen Hawkins
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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.
Myles Munroe
45.
So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.
Edmund Spenser
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When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.
Tamora Pierce
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What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
Mahatma Gandhi
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Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.
Tenzin Palmo
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Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.
Roger L'Estrange
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Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.
Timothy Keller