Quotes About Commitment

Agassiz would not lecture at five hundred dollars a night, because he had no time to make money.

success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed : pay the price and it is yours.

Persevering mediocrity is much more respectable, and unspeakably more useful, than talented inconstancy. — J. Hamilton.

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Once you get a brother, you don't give him up easy.

The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of those who need them.

Love and serve the sources of your strength.

That's what Father and Mother are, thought Nafai. They stay together, not because of any gain, but because of the gift. Father doesn't stay with Mother because she is good for him, but rather because together they can do good for us, and for many others.

He was always just mad enough to take treaties seriously. Honor, you know. I don't have any.

She discovered, as many a living being had discovered, that rational decisions are far more easily made than carried out.

The prospect of sharing the rest of their lives held no dread for them. . . every word and movement between them carried their history and their future like background movement, shaping each moment even when they weren't aware of it.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

So why don't you go home? Dink smiled crookedly. Because I can't give up the game. He tugged at the fabric of his flash suit, which lay on the bunk beside him. Because I love this.

But I have these friends because I stayed with my task. So instead of dragging each other down, we're building each other up. We're not just good friends, we're friends who do each other good.

The PCs were willing, but the powers that be didn't want to commit troops.

knew what was written on his papers, or they would have been horrified, for he had written, "My body," "My spirit," and "My soul." Thus it was that he burned himself on Jiang-qing's funeral pyre, and sent himself with her wherever it was she was

I can't do a weekly column," Valentine said. "I don't even have a monthly period yet.

Why were they still on that planet? Why weren't they in ships, speeding away? They chose to stay, knowing we had that weapon, knowing what it did and how it worked, they stayed for the battle, they waited for us to come.

binding yourself to another person and to the children you make together, that's life.