Quotes about Vow

Edward Teach

Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you.

Cindy Hyde-Smith

Judge Kavanaugh never wavered from his vow not to buckle under political or public pressure, which is a characteristic we need in a Supreme Court justice.

Abraham Lincoln

Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.

Wayne Dyer

Vow to seek a Calm Inner Response to the Circumstances of your Life

Harald I

I make the solemn vow, and take God to witness, who made me and rules over all things, that never shall I clip or comb my hair until I have subdued the whole of Norway, … or if not, have died in the attempt

Thus was Norway formed into a single kingdom. He married another woman, Asa, and several years later after he had unified Norway, Gyda too became his wife.

Marie Lu

You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.

E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

William Shakespeare

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

Saint Augustine

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

Francis Quarles

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

Menachem Begin

I have sworn that my right eye shall fall out, my right arm shall wither if I dismantle a single settlement.

Carter, together with the American and Israeli negotiating staffs came up with a creative idea whereby the Israeli Knesset voted to dismantle the settlements so that Begin would not renege on his promise. The breakthrough enabled the Camp David Accord and the Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt. Carter later won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Chris Patten

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

Mahatma Gandhi

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

Jenny Downham

I said I wouldn't leave her.

John Betjeman

Approval of what is approved of
Is as false as a well-kept vow.

Kevin Jonas

My ring represents a promise to myself and to God that I'll stay pure until marriage.

Mariah Carey

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

William Shakespeare

Yet, for I know thou art religious
And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies
Which I have seen thee careful to observe,
Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know
An idiot holds his bauble for a god
And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,
To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow
By that same god, what god soe'er it be,
That thou adorest and hast in reverence,
To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up,
Or else I will discover naught to thee.

Myles Munroe

A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

John Keats

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

Mark Twain

...to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. In the beginning of the 21st century, most Republicans had actually signed a pledge never to raise any taxes. Many of them might have thought better of the idea of they had read this quotation as freedom for them is a very important thing.

Mahatma Gandhi

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

Jodi Picoult

How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

George R. R. Martin

It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh.

Vow Quotes