Quotes about vow

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Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.

— Thomas Fuller

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

A vow is a snare for sin.

— Samuel Johnson

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— William Penn

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

— William Shakespeare

Men's vows are women's traitors!

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare