Quotes About Commitment

Ease of going was translated without pause into a principled unwillingness to stop.

His life has never rested on anything he has known beforehand — none of it. He chose it before he knew it, and again afterwards.

She cared for him without hope, because she had passed the place of turning back or looking back. Quietly, almost submissively, she propped herself against him, because in her fate and faith she was opposed to his ruin.

I had made a significant change in my relation to the place: before, it had been mine by coincidence or accident; now it was mine by choice. My return, which at first had been hesitant and tentative, grew wholehearted and sure. I had come back to stay. I hoped to live here the rest of my life. And once that was settled I began to see the place with a new clarity and a new understanding and a new seriousness.

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field

Hey Almanzo, if you liked it then you should've built a shanty on it.

A police force is like a lake. When you get out, you don't leave a hole.

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.

I never think anyone in love is foolish. We do the best we can.

On July 13, 1925, Walt and Lillian were married. They spent their honeymoon at Mount Rainier. On their wedding night, Walt had such a bad toothache that he couldn't sleep. To take his mind off the pain, he left their room and helped a porter shine shoes all night. The next morning he went to a dentist and had his tooth pulled. It certainly wasn't the most fun way to start off a marriage. But Walt had a good story to tell.

Everyone at Disney worked long hours. But nobody worked harder than Walt. He drove himself to the point of collapse. He was exhausted and more moody than ever.

Pinch, Bijker, and Hughes note that inclusion in a group, organization, or bureaucracy dampens the originality of inventors and innovators (Bijker, this volume). High inclusion brings mission orientation or commitment to incremental improvements in the evolving technological system with which the group, organization, or bureaucracy has identified. The

I have never loved a woman, and by God's grace, I never will.

I should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman who has lived in all my thoughts, who has possessed herself of all my energies, who has become the one guiding influence that now directs the purpose of my life.

you are so much better off as a single woman – unless – unless you are very fond of your husband …

Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.

You gave me your promise, was the reply, spoken with the same immovable self-possession. You must write for me, or break your word.

I began to doubt whether she might not be repenting of her engagement—just as young ladies often do, when repentance comes too late. On

I said, No man is worth fretting for in that way. And she said, There are men worth dying for, Lucy, and he is one of them.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Only a philosopher can be happy in marriage, and philosophers do not marry.

His wife does not dress for him, only when he has gone away and is no longer in her mind; he sees her in a disheveled negligee, while all through the day he meets women powdered and primped and curled, whose charming knees and inviting frocks and encouraging smiles and aphrodisiac perfumes leave him hovering hourly over the abysses of disloyalty.

He says to his wife, in the early years of their marriage: "Let us live always as we live now, and let us not abandon the names that we have given each other in our first love. … You and I must always remain young, and you shall always be beautiful to me. We must keep no count of the years.