Quotes About Commitment

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.

Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life.

When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."

"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."

I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.

Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep, the trains you have never failed to catch.

A man after his own heart.

Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.