These vow quotes will inspire you. Vow solemnly promises to do a specified thing or dedicate to someone or something, especially a deity.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging vow quotes, vow sayings, and vow proverbs.
Famous 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
- “Life is all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever.” ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
- “It is the purpose that makes strong the vow, But vows to every purpose must not hold.” ~ William Shakespeare
-
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” ~ Alexander Smith
- “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
- “Love is free; to promise forever 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
- “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
-
“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
- “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
- “‘Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.” ~ Judy Garland
- “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
-
“Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow’d true.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “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
- “If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.” ~ Anne Bradstreet
- “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you” ~ Roy Croft
- “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
-
“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
- “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
- “Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.” ~ Lord Kelvin
- “Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
-
“Men’s vows are women’s traitors” ~ William Shakespeare
- “A vow is a snare for sin” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “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
- “Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.” ~ Thomas Fuller
- “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
-
“Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.” ~ William Penn
- “Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.” ~ John Keats
- “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~ Aristotle
-
“Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.” ~ Tertullian
- “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you: His life, Her Life, and Your life together.” ~ Ann Aguirre
-
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “I love thee to the level of everyday’s most quiet need, by sun and candle light…I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” ~ Kiersten White
-
“I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.” ~ Anne Bradstreet
- “And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” ~ Graeme Simsion
- “In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.” ~ Godfrey Reggio
-
“If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.” ~ Anne Bradstreet
- “Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.” ~ Dick Gregory
- “I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.” ~ Elizabeth George , Vow quotes for her
-
“Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.” ~ Emily Yoffe
- “Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.” ~ Myles Munroe
- “Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
- “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
-
“What is a vow… but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?” ~ Jane Yolen
- “It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.” ~ Matthew Henry , Vow quotes for him
- “Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.” ~ Max Lucado
- “I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-
“May these vows and this marriage be blessed.” ~ Rumi
- “The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “I took my vow to poetry; this is where I’m going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I’m going to put my energy.” ~ Anne Waldman
- “During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.” ~ Sebastian Junger
-
“Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.” ~ Voltaire
- “It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.” ~ Thomas Malory
- “There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering one. But ever since that night in Dover prison I have never been tempted to break my vow.. My Parents always drummed into me that all you have life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name you’ll never be happy.” ~ Richard Branson
- “I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath – I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!” ~ Tobias Smollett
-
“The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one’s capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn’t even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.” ~ Joan D. Chittister
- “The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I’d get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle – moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.” ~ Douglas Coupland
Vow to make a solemn promise: swear.
