Quotes About Commitment

I found in them the qualities I looked for in professional writers and artists of all kinds, a total dedication to their work, not necessarily obvious but discernible all the same, compassion, intelligence rather than intellect, and that peculiar attitude to the world in general, half of mockery, half of deep concern...

I think marriage is ghastly.

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

When you're good at making excuses, it's difficult to excel at anything else.

It's like a crime is an act that when you've committed one the act is over and you haven't changed inside. But when you commit a sin it's like you create a condition that you have to live in.

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Abraham Lincoln's principle for greatness can be adopted by nearly all. This was his rule: Whatsoever he had to do at all, he put his whole mind into it and held it all there until that was all done.

own. You cannot trust a man in your family that is not true to his own wife. You cannot trust a man in the world that does not begin with his own heart, his own character, and his own life.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

There are no failures, only quitters

Only do shit you believe in!

Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

If someone can handle you at your worst, they'll stick around for your best.

They see you at your worst and don't run away. If someone can handle you at your worst, they'll stick around for your best.

Marriage isn't all about chores and children. It's about the sharing of your life with someone else.

But I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm not going to send her back to her brother. Ever. She is my wife. She stays with me until the day she dies." Ethan's eyes lit up. "Ah, so you're planning to kill her.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

Ask me not where I live      or what I like to eat. . . .      Ask me what I am living for      and what I think is keeping me      from living fully for that. THOMAS MERTON, Thoughts in Solitude