Quotes About Commitment

The world is made by the people who show up for the job

My word was too easy to give, too hard to keep.

Illyan once told me that half the secret of House Vorkosigan's preeminence in Barrayaran history was the quality of the people it drew to its service.

Loyalty must run two ways, else become betrayal in the egg.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. So . . . is this Ekaterin another passing fancy?" The Count hesitated, his eyes crinkling. "Or is she the one who will love my son forever and fiercely—hold his household and estates with integrity—stand beside him through danger, and dearth, and death—and guide my grandchildren's hands when they light my funeral offering?

If she finished her work—hah, now there was a fantasy, this work would never be finished, only abandoned, or, all right, passed on—she might squeeze out another day off by next weekend.

Must retire harder...

I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.

Nothing worth doing is fun all the time. But it's still worth doing all the time.

Same jobs over and over, all have to be done again tomorrow or something dies? Despite the weather or the hurting, or, or whatever. Yeah, I guess there are some parallels." While he was weighing this, his mouth kept moving without him. "Or maybe it's just called being a grownup.

It seemed to Ivan that he needed to court his wife. Promptly. In the next, what was it, ten days.

have stuck to your original contract. Or your second plan.

Head in the direction you wish to arrive. Don't divert or divide yourself for a degree in English (unless you want to be a teacher) or articles in the local paper (unless you want to be a journalist). You become a fiction writer by writing fiction.

Yet loyalty must run two ways, or else become betrayal in the egg.

It's only for a week. If I can do it," he said manfully, "you can do it." "I've heard that before somewhere," she muttered.

Why does your one virtue have to be fidelity?

Well, Ista, said the Voice. Do you stay or go? You cannot hang forever in My doorway like a cat, you know.

Everybody makes that same damned argument. 'I can't do it all, so I'm not going to do any.' And they don't. And it goes on, and on.

Same jobs over and over, all have to be done again tomorrow or something dies?  Despite the weather or the hurting, or, or whatever.  Yeah, I guess there are some parallels."  While he was weighing this, his mouth kept moving without him.  "Or maybe it's just called being a grownup.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job," Miles agreed.

Inside his own head, a continuous counterpoint ran in little popping bubbles, Look! I'm engaged! Isn't she pretty? She asked me. She's smart, too. She's going to marry me. Mine, mine, all mine. I'm engaged! To be married! To this woman! an effervescence that emerged, he trusted, only as a cool, suave smile.

She would do her marriage then, hour by hour and day by day with the work of her hands, and let the wishing fall where it would.

Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving