Quotes About Commitment

I am glad a task to me is given, To labor at day by day, For it brings me health and strength and hope, And I cheerfully learn to say, "Head, you may think, Heart, you may feel, But, Hand, you shall work alway!

She had often said she wanted to do something splendid, no matter how hard; and now she had her wish,--for what could be more beautiful than to devote her life to father and mother, trying to make home as happy to them as they had to her?

Stay where you are, Jo. I'm errand boy for this establishment.

Remaría contigo en la misma barca durante toda la vida

Don't feel that I am separated from you, Marmee dear, or that I love you any the less for loving John so much, she said, clinging to her mother, with full eyes for a moment. I shall come every day, Father, and expect to keep my old place in all your hearts, though I am married. Beth is going to be with me a great deal, and the other girls will drop in now and then to laugh at my housekeeping struggles. Thank you all for my happy wedding day. Good-by, good-by!

Quien desea de corazón ser mejor, tiene medio camino hecho

Well, the winter's gone, and I've written no books, earned no fortune, but i've made a friend worth baving and I'll try to keep him all my life.

we shall take turns, for marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. You'll go on as you begin, and Amy will rule you all the days of your life.

try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else," said Jo, thinking that keeping her temper at home was a much harder task than facing a rebel or two down South.

Ojalá pudiera casarme yo con Meg, para que así no abandonara nunca la familia!

I don't believe that I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Remamos muy bien los dos, ¿verdad? -Dijo ella para interrumpir el silencio -Tanto que, por mi gusto, remaría contigo en la misma barca durante toda la vida. ¿Quieres, Amy? -le pregunto tiernamente. -Si, Laurie -contestó ella en voz muy baja.

You've got me, anyhow. I'm not good for much, I know, but I'll stand by you, Jo, all the days of my life. Upon my word I will!" and Laurie meant what he said. "I know you will, and I'm ever so much obliged. You are always a great comfort to me, Teddy," returned Jo, gratefully shaking hands.

she won't wish us to give up everything.

Poverty seldom daunts a sincere lover.

for though we do want to be good, it's hard work, and we forget, and don't do our best.

Lounging and larking doesn't pay, observed Jo, shaking her head. I'm tired of it and mean to go to work at something right off.

I'll let my castle go, and stay with the dear old gentleman while he needs me, for I am all he has.

A lover is not worth having if he's not in earnest.

It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way.

Dizes isso agora, mas há de chegar uma altura em que irás gostar de alguém e irás amá-lo profundamente e viver e morrer por ele. Eu sei que sim, tu és assim, e serei obrigado a assistir a tudo isso.

de qualquer modo, você tem a mim. não sirvo para muita coisa, eu sei, mas ficarei a seu lado, jo, todos os dias de minha vida. dou minha palavra que ficarei.

he was quite satisfied, for she folded both hands over his arm, and looked up at him with an expression that plainly showed how happy she would be to walk through life beside him, even though she had no better shelter than the old umbrella, if he carried it.

Marriage is an economic proposition.