Vow Quotes

• A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Taken, Passion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.116, Tara Publishing

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• Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Believe, Promise

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1823). “Queen Mab: a philosophical poem : with notes”, p.110

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  For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

  Judy Garland

  Love, Funny, Romantic

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  Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

  Alexander Smith

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.174

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• It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Promise, Purpose

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.178

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• A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Uplifting, Determination

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Maturity, Expression, Servant Of God

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• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  "Winnie-the-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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• Life is all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Impact, Forever, Life Is

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• 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

  Judy Garland

  I Love You, Valentines Day, I Love Him

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  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Valentines Day, Cute Boyfriend

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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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

  Promise, Oath

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.101

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• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

  Henry Drummond

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Henry Drummond (2013). “Beautiful Thoughts from Henry Drummond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Love, Marriage, Couple

  "To My Dear and Loving Husband" l. 1 (1678)

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• I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

  Roy Croft

  Love, Friendship, Positive

  "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.

  Jim Ryun

  Taken, Years, America

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• You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Finding Yourself, Signatures, May

  Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands. The language of magic and gardening. II”, p.53, Psychology Press

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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

  Determination, Prayer, Break

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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

  Faces, Problem, Reincarnation

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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

  Men, Promise, Break

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.62, Grove Press

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• Men's vows are women's traitors

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Women, Traitor

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.235

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• A vow is a snare for sin

  Samuel Johnson

  Sin, Snares

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• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

  Thomas Fuller

  Storm, Calm, Quiet

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  Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

  Kirk Cameron

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

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