Quotes About Commitment

Her voice trembled. "I'm so glad you're mine. I won't ever let you go." This time, it was Kaleb who said, "I know," devastated at being so wanted. "You are just a little possessive."

No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it.

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others need no preparation and got none.

This ain't no thirty-seven year job, this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer.

More men go to church than want to.

If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

When its steamboat time you steamboat

Certainly. Of course. That's part of it. And always coming to school or when we're going home, you're to walk with me, when there ain't anybody looking – and you choose me and I choose you at parties, because that's the way you do when you're engaged.

Ä°nsan; her zaman, ona en büyük zihinsel rahatl??? getirecek olan ÅŸeyi yapacakt?r - zira bu onun yaÅŸam?n?n yegane yasas?d?r. AÄŸlaÅŸan ailesini geride b?rak?r; onlar?n rahat?n? bozduÄŸunu için üzgündür, fakat onlar?n rahatl???n? korumak için kendi rahat?n? feda edecek kadar deÄŸil.

And whoever will take that motto and live by it will be likely to succeed. There's many a way to win, in this world, but none of them is worth much without good hard work back of it.

f?g?duiala de a nu face un lucru este calea cea mai sigur? pentru a fi mereu ispitit s?-l faci.

All right then, I'll go to hell.

teria compreendido então que Trabalho consiste em tudo o que se é obrigado a fazer e que Prazer consiste naquilo que não se é obrigado a fazer.

However, I assured her that if he found he couldn't stand it I would fix him so that he could.