Quotes About Commitment

2. Not overcoming laziness and so forth

When you commit yourself to the bodhisattva path, the path of helping others, you feel as if you have done it before and you have been doing it all along. It is like living up to your inheritance, or taking over your parents' business. You feel that there is something quite natural and right about it.

Your significant other, or 'sother'.

The easiest way to never get anything done is to never commit to anything.

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

But it would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching surge of effort that is always the difference between integrity and deceit in a created work. I would not be the whore to my own existence. Can you understand that? I would not be the whore to my own existence.

We say keeping agreements is a win-win proposition. And this, of course, is not new. For ages people have talked about the importance of keeping commitments and whether or not people are "as good as their word." How committed are we to sticking with it, to making it happen? This has to do with integrity, and with our ability to build solid relationships.

I found the power to move beyond the steps, to not merely dance the part but to become it.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

A woman isn't just married to her husband, but to his whole family

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

No person ever really lives until he has found something worth dying for.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

To do one's duty every day and trust in God for tomorrow.

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. As it turns out, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

What is annoying in love, is that it is a crime in which one cannot do without an accomplice.

One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

There were only two things that mattered in his life: the union and his family. Believe it or not, as strong as he was for the union, his wife and his daughter and his son came first to him.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all. because if you're guessing and it doesn't work out you can just say, shit, the gods are against me. but if you know and don't do, you've got attics and dark halls in your mind to walk up and down in and wonder about. this ain't healthy, leads to unpleasant evenings, too much to drink and the shredding machine.