Quotes About Commitment

What are you doing? I'm trying - You are not, my girl. There are two sort of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I'm trying to make you the former. Now concentrate, girl!

I don't back out of a long and happy make-believe union just when things start getting rocky

Marrying for love was not forbidden; it just didn't make any sense.

Yo enamoré a mi mujer haciéndole creer que era escritor y al final tuve que hacerme escritor para que se quedase conmigo.

People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

Without passion, there is little enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, profits are few and far between.

A business that can't make the commitment to three entries a week doesn't need and shouldn't have a blog.

Marketing experts see today as two separate ages. One requires the age-old principles of patience and commitment for the eventual profit. The other requires a can't-refuse offer, a large and responsive mailing list, and online dexterity for the quick profit. The guerrilla marketer of today operates comfortably in both ages.

When Christ said, "take up your cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23), He put an end to all such thinking. He represented the Christian life as a daily struggle to change. The counselee can change if the Spirit of God dwells within him. Of course, if He does not, there is no such hope.

Finalmente, llénala de deseo de actuar. Muestra a la bombilla que el cambio es pan comido e inspírala con una visión de claridad. Esto requiere emociones más fuertes que conviertan una decisión en un compromiso.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Diana seemed content with her role of wife, too. Colby congratulated himself. He'd chosen well the second time around, even if he had chosen in haste again. He'd learned a lot about Diana in the past few months. She was a mature adult just as he was, and when she made a commitment, she kept it

Dad says Specter gets steak every Saturday night for the rest of his life." "Specter will hold him to that, I'm sure." Diana leaned back against the pillows. "Hurry up and tell me the rest. Once Colby gets back, he probably won't tell me a thing. All he'll want to discuss is breast-feeding techniques and how to change diapers.

Then why do you want to marry me?" she exploded. "For the usual reasons," he shot back. "Such as?" He slanted her a narrow look and made an obvious bid for his patience. "Such as the fact that we are very strongly attracted to each other, although I'll admit a casual onlooker might not think so if he saw us bickering like this.

Privately she thought she understood exactly why Pamela Bedford and Lindsay Mills had lost their nerve on the eve of marriage. It would take courage to marry Sam Stark.

Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.

Entrego-me cegamente ao impulso que me arrasta.

Il n'y a pas d'amour, il n'y a que des preuves d'amour.

There is neither magic nor master's eye. Only a great deal of love and a great deal of work.

Art is not a pastime, but a priesthood.

if he doesn't want to come home, then we will bring home to him.' And that's why we are all here.

Pick the wrong person and it doesn't matter how much you want to fix your marriage. It won't work.

But if you seek counsel - from a priest, for example - you have selected that priest; and at bottom you already knew, more or less, what he would advise. In other words, to choose an adviser is nevertheless to commit oneself by that choice. (From: Existentialism is a Humanism)