Quotes About Commitment

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

But what does the word insist mean after a whole life of love and understanding? I have never asked anything for myself that I did not also wish for him.

Por otra parte, yo era extremista: quería todo o nada. Si amaba sería para toda la vida y me daría entera con mi cuerpo, mi corazón, mi cabeza y mi pasado. Me negaba a picotear emociones, voluptuosidades ajenas a esa idea. A decir verdad no tuve oportunidad de probar la solidez de esos principios, pues ningún seductor trató de conmoverlos.

Cada hombre decide el lugar que ocupa en el mundo; pero es necesario que ocupe uno, jamás puede retirarse.

Am înv??at, de asemenea, c? pentru a p?trunde taina lucrurilor trebuie, înainte de toate, s? te d?ruieÈ™ti lor.

Et en fait tout homme qui a eu de vraies amours, de vraies révoltes, de vrais désirs, de vraies volontés, sait bien qu'il n'a besoin d'aucune garantie étrangère por être sûr de ses buts; leur certitude vient de son propre élan.

Estaba dispuesta a negar el espacio y el tiempo antes de admitir que el amor puede no ser eterno.

To will is to engage myself to persevere in my will.

Bien loin qu'elle se voue à l'homme parce qu'elle se sait inférieure à lui, c'est parce qu'elle lui est vouée qu'acceptant l'idée de son inferiorité elle la constitue.

Ce ne sont pas les individus qui sont responsables de l'échec du mariage: c'est l'institution elle-même qui est originellement pervertie

Es mío solamente aquello en lo que reconozco mi ser y no puedo reconocerlo sino ahí donde estoy comprometido; para que un objeto me pertenezca, es preciso que haya sido fundado por mí: no es totalmente mío si no lo he fundado en su totalidad. La única realidad que me pertenece enteramente es pues, mi acto.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Always do what will cost you the most.

God denied himself for our sakes in order to give us the possibility of denying ourselves for him. This response, this echo, which it is in our power to refuse, is the only possible justification for the folly of love of the creative act.

There had been occasions when David could have seized position and power by means that would have compromised his commitment to the Lord.

Faithfulness is far more significant than fame when Jesus is building His church.

Faithful service is often unnoticed by men but it never remains unnoticed by God.

Oh, well, Doremus reflected, he had lived with Emma for thirty-four years, and not oftener than once or twice a year had he wanted to murder her.

The gospel crew could never consider their converts as human beings, like waiters or manicurists or brakemen, but they had in them such a professional interest as surgeons take in patients, critics in an author, fishermen in trout.

I pledge myself to serve the Corporate State, the Chief, all Commissioners, the Mystic Wheel, and the troops of the Republic in every thought and deed.

Watson: When do we start? Holmes: You are not coming. Watson: Then you are not going. I give you my word of honour - and I never broke it in my life - that I will take a cab straight to the police station and give you away unless you let me share this adventure with you.