Quotes About Commitment

Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

Read my lips: no new taxes

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Never make a cheater your partner. Never make your partner a cheater.

Always do right and you'll always have too much to do.

A good marriage is a slow transition from a delightful illusion to a still inspiring reality.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Love is a personal debt.

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

A black belt is only one more step along an endless path, a license to go on learning for as long as you live.

The people we know as masters don't devote themselves to their particular skill just to get better at it. The truth is, they love to practice—and because of this they do get better.

Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.

Never marry a person," psychologist Nathaniel Brandon tells his clients, "who is not a friend of your excitement.

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.