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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
8.
I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.
Julia Quinn
9.
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
14.
I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
Deb Caletti
15.
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
16.
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
19.
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
22.
I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste?
C. J. Anderson
23.
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi
24.
New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.
John Dryden
25.
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
29.
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
30.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Tertullian
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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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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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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
Voltaire
35.
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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I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?
Karen Hawkins
40.
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
44.
What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?
Jane Yolen
45.
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
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All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
Samuel Johnson
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The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.
Mahatma Gandhi