Vow Quotes

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.

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

Men's vows are women's traitors

Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

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.

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

Take a vow for a life of service to others.

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

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.

A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

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.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste?

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

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?

I took a vow of political celibacy.

A vow is a snare for sin

What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

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.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.

I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

Vows begin when hope dies.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?

I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.

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.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

The word of God is my vow.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.