Quotes About Commitment

Happy the man who knows his duties!

A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness, I would say "Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!"

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."

Acting is happy agony.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police - it's gone.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

The forgotten man. He is the clean, quiet, virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do so.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.