Quotes About Commitment

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

Deed, I aye had eneuch adu to du the thing I had to du, no to say the thing 'at naebody wad du but mysel'. I hae had nae leisur' for feelin's an' that, insisted Miss Horn.

Heed not thy feeling. Do thy work.

As soon as a man begins to make excuses, the time has come when he might be doing that from which he excuses himself.

It is not betrayal of feeling, but avoidance of duty, that constitutes weakness.

Then let us be of one heart too, Dawtie! She was so accustomed to hear Andrew speak in figures, that sometimes she looked through and beyond his words. She did so now, and seeing nothing, stood perplexed. Willna ye, Dawtie? said Andrew, holding out his hands. I dinna freely understand ye, An'rew! Ye heavenly idiot! cried Andrew. Will ye be my wife, or will you no?

I must show the blacksmith and the shopkeeper once more--two years after marriage--time long enough to have made common people as common to each other as the weed by the roadside; but these are not common to each other yet, and never will be. They will never complain of being _desillusionnes_, for they have never been illuded. They look up each to the other still, because they were right in looking up each to the other from the first. Each was, and therefore each is and will be, real.

True business can never be left in any shop. It is a care, white or black, that sits behind every horseman.

The man is a true man who chooses duty; he is a perfect man who at length never thinks of duty, who forgets the name of it.

I love her dearly, far beyond any creature I've ever known, and I can prove it, for never once in almost seventy years of married life have I taken her by the throat.

His answer to every problem, every setback was "I will work harder!" —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

I do not understand it. I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm. It must be due to some fault in ourselves. The solution, as I see it, is to work harder. From now onwards I shall get up a full hour earlier in the mornings.

And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray.

For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

In that moment he had loved her far more than he had ever done when they were together and free. Also he knew that somewhere or other she was still alive and needed his help.

I have not betrayed Julia.

and it is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life

It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

Si pueden obligarme a dejarte de amar... ésa sería la verdadera traición

Something in his face deeply moved me. It was the face of a man who would commit murder and throw away his life for a friend – the kind of face you would expect in an Anarchist, though as likely as not he was a Communist.

Bir kad?nla on beÅŸ y?ld?r ya??yorsan?z onsuz bir hayat? düÅŸünemez hale gelirsiniz. Dünyan?z?n bir parças?d?r o. Diyelim ki güneÅŸin veya ay?n baz? özellikleri hoÅŸunuza gitmiyor; onlar? yine de gerçekten deÄŸiÅŸtirmek ister misiniz?

Kau sudah pernah melakukan ini? Tentu. Ratusan kali -- yah, setidaknya puluhan kali. Dengan anggota Partai. Ya. Selalu dengan anggota Partai. Dengan anggota Partai Inti? Tidak dengan celeng-celeng itu! Emoh. Tapi, banyak dari mereka yang mau kalau saja ada peluang sekecil apa pun. Mereka tidak sesuci lagaknya.

There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognised it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for.