Quotes About Commitment

Per sempre, voleva aggiungere Fridolin, ma prima ancora che pronunciasse quelle parole, lei gli pose un dito sulle labbra e sussurrò come fra sé: « Non si può ipotecare il futuro »

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word" (Acts 6:4).

He fully discharged the obligations of every relationship that He sustained, either to God or to man.

Parenthood is an unspeakably solemn matter.

When you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you" (Jer. 29:13–14). When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.

Yet even now," says the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting." (Joel 2:12)

A questo mondo ci sono tante cose che si è costretti a fare per amore o per forza.

You can get used to anything, especially when you have no option. If you have to pay, you pay; it's just a question of attitude. At a particular moment in your life you adopt a certain position, whether mistaken or not. You decide to be like this or that. You burn your boats, and then all you can do is defend that position, come what may.

El español, una vez decidida la estocada que se propone dar, la ejecuta ciegamente aunque así lo hagan pedazos (PIERRE DE BRANTÔME).

Un perro no es más que una lealtad en busca de una causa. Dadle una idea a uno como yo, un amo o un objetivo en la vida, y se aferrará a ello con los colmillos apretados.

conocían en sus carnes que el servicio del rey nuestro señor era de harta exigencia a la hora de morir, pero de mal pago en la de seguir vivos.

Al nostro lavoro si viene avendo già pianto a casa.

Se asumen, se cumplen, y punto... Sin grandes gestos. Sin dramatismos.

Sin lealtá, los hombres semos menos que los puros animales

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.

Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

ground gained must be retained at all cost and never yielded. Once attention has been caught, and interest kindled, the task is one of consolidation: the original impulse and fervor must be safeguarded and never allowed to disappear.

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

You are right," Josette said softly. "I am devoted

That is marriage , he thought, remaking yourself in someone else's image. And who knew where the truth of it began or would end?

So this is parenthood, he thought. You behave better than you might for the sake of your kid.