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Quotes About Commitment

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.
~ Helen Rowland
When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.
~ Henry David Thoreau
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
~ Hesiod
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
~ Honore de Balzac
England expects every man to do his duty
~ Horatio Nelson
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley
~ Jane Austen
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
~ Jane Austen
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I've been married three times, but I'll never forget my first trip as a young man, on my honeymoon, with my new wife.
~ Joe Pesci
Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.
~ John Doolittle
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
~ John Updike
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
~ Jules Renard
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
~ Langston Hughes
I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.
~ Lettie Cowman
Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
~ Solon
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
~ Sophocles
Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!
~ Susan Powter
I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
~ Thomas Fuller
To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.
~ Walter Lippmann
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
~ William A. Clark
This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.
~ Wilson Greatbatch