Quotes About Commitment

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it.

Doing thousands of little things, day after day, inching along as consistently as you can, in the right direction as best you can tell, is management—and motivating or inspiring everyone to work together for long-term purpose is leadership.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Attempted good marriage with premeditation.

Every lover has love that he converts to future. (Chaque amoureux a l'amour - Qu'il convertit en futur.)

For him, she bends over backwards. It is origami of the heart. (Pour lui, elle se plie en quatre. - C'est l'origami du cœur)

The contract of love signs itself on the lips. (Le contrat de l'amour Se signe sur les lèvres)

The lover steals a kiss. He is under penalty of perpetuity. (L'amoureux vole un baiser. Il encourt perpétuité)

The wedding is to be sentenced for life for good past conduct. (Le mariage, c'est être condamné A vie pour bonne conduite passée)

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.