Quotes About Commitment

Si los hombres le dedicasen a la física o a las matemáticas una cuarta parte de las horas que tardan en resolver sus líos amorosos, la ciencia avanzaría en proporciones geométricas.

I have only to renew my pact with Solitude, to which I have tried to be unfaithful.

Lo que te faltó para enamorarte verdaderamente de una mujer fue lo mismo que te faltó para enamorarte de una actividad, o de algún vicio, por último. Te faltó abandono, fe, ese entusiasmo generoso, esa facultad de admiración emocionada que concede a la otra persona la importancia de ser única, necesaria

No ya vanguardia o tradición, sino compromiso, formal y temático, con una nueva sensibilidad temporal, con un uso creativo (y, en consecuencia, crítico) de las imágenes. O desaparición en la técnica, fundido en esa unidad técnico-comunicativa que constituyen los lenguajes hiperestetizados de la cultura de masas. Estamos asistiendo al necesario nacimiento de una nueva moral de la actividad artística o su disolución

Porque usted sabe, general, que mover un país, por pequeño que sea, es obra de gigantes. Y quien no se sienta gigante de amor, o de valor, o de pensamiento, o de paciencia, no debe emprenderla

i El deber de un hombre es estar allí, donde es mas útil!

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

From my point of view it is immoral for a being not to make the most intense effort every instant of his life.

We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.

quien quiere agradar, se esmera.

He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens, and the story, though resistant to some of his intentions, was at least a testimony to reality and coherence

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Armando was the only man who'd been patient enough to chase after me. After he had caught me, he'd done what every man loves to do when he has found the woman of his dreams: take her for granted.

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,

Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship.

What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country

Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

...with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice