Quotes About Commitment

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

The world will, in the end, follow only those who have despised as well as served it.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

He that imposes an oath makes it,Not he that for convenience takes it;Then how can any man be saidTo break an oath he never made?

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.

Recognizing that backsliding is natural, he committed himself to repeated practice. Recognizing that some virtues, such as humility and order, were particularly hard for him to achieve, he decided to lower his standards and cut himself some slack. The result was a program that was explicit, realistic, and, as he looked back on it, seemingly effective.

All I want is to be in the game.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

I am unwilling to mix my fortune with him that is going down the wind.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Ma járt le a borivás és a színház ellen tett fogadalmam, s úgy határoztam, élek is e szabadságommal, miel?tt újra fogadalmat teszek.