Quotes About Commitment

A second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience.

Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

AFFIDATION  (AFFIDA'TION)  AFFIDATURE  (AFFIDA'TURE)  n.s.[from  affido, Lat.See AFFIED.] Mutual contract; mutual oath of fidelity. Dict.

I found that the last line in my Concordance and the last line in my six long volumes is Johnson's quotation of Goldsmith's fine saying; 'I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship

Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Potrai negarmi di accompagnarti, ma non puoi impedirmi di seguirti.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

But I will always find you, no matter where you go. I will always be part of your love. I will always care for and protect you. Your loving father

You say that if a woman resolves not to marry till she finds herself addressed to by a man of strict virtue, she must be for ever single. If this be true, what wicked creatures are men! What a dreadful abuse of passions, given them for the noblest purposes, are they guilty of!

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Have I not taught you, that marriage is a duty, whenever it can be enter'd into with prudence? What a mean, what a selfish mind must that person have, whether man or woman, who can resolve against entering into the state, because it has its cares, its fatigues, its inconveniencies!

A promise is an obligation. A just man will keep his promise, a generous man will go beyond it. — This is my rule.

He stood suspended till I had speaking; and then, bowing, sat down again; but, as Mr. Reeves told me afterwards, he whispered a great oath in his ear, and declared, that he beheld with transport his future wife; and cursed himself if he would ever have another; vowing, in the same whisper, that were a thousand men to stand in his way, he would not scruple any means to remove them.

Sabrina: "But you don't believe in marriage." Linus: "Yes, I do. It's why I've never married.

I'm beginning to think that the world is divided into two kinds of men: those you can marry and don't want to; those you want to marry and can't.

Instead we have a tradition of common prayer, a general commitment to the well-being of all, including nonmembers of the church, and a desire to seek a faith that can be shared by people of a wide diversity of

I've got your back, Doc. You can count on it. I would kill them before I let them touch you.

He lifted his gaze to the framed photograph of Tanya and him taken on their wedding day. God, she had been lovely. Her smile had come through her eyes straight from her heart. He had known unequivocally that she loved him. He believed to this day that she had died knowing that he loved her. How could she not know? He had dedicated his life to never letting her doubt it.

That all any of us has to give is our best. if we do that. we succeed, no matter what the outcome.

He kissed her like he meant it, like this kiss was going to be the last thing he ever did on earth, and he was going to do it right, thoroughly, and leave nothing wanting.

It's hard for us to back down once we've taken a stand.