Quotes About Commitment

To do something large and to do it well demands such observances, personal and peculiar, laughable as they often are, because they stave off that dinginess of soul that says that everything is small and grubby and nothing is really worth the effort.

I've flown about a bit and picked up a few things and I'll give one of them to you for nothing. You don't run out on the woman you love.

Late-night TV and snoring side by side into the millennium. Till death us do part. Anniversary darling? What's wrong with that?

If I am honest I will admit that I have always wanted to avoid love. Yes give me romance, give me sex, give me fights, give me all the parts of love but not the simple single word which is so complex and demands the best of me this hour this minute this forever.

Keep me in the mop bucket or the slot where the grill pan goes, but don't let me go because I love you.

Fools stay in love. I am a fool.

You don't have to get into writing – it's not like a pair of jeans... The only way to write is to write – the rest may or not follow.

what you risk reveals what you value...

To live is not to breathe but to act.

To be something, to be himself, and always at one with himself, a man must act as he speaks, must know what course he ought to take, and must follow that course with vigour and persistence.

Les gens qui passent exactement la vie entière à travailler pour vivre n'ont d'autre idée que celle de leur travail ou de leur intérêt, et tout leur esprit semble être au bout de leurs bras.

Your beginning, he said to me, is the rule of what will be required of you: seek to behave so as to do more afterwards, but watch out never to do less.

Le plus lent à promettre est toujours le plus fidèle à tenir.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you're willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

I want to I might be good at. I really want to be good at something, to feel passionate about it.

I think if you have something that you really love to do, you're already ahead of ninety-nine percent of the people out there in the world.

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.

Marriage] made the hard moments easier and the good moments better.

You know, if it's humanly possible, I'll get it for you. And if it ain't humanly possible, I'l die trying.

my promise that I'd protect her—the promise I'd made

I've told you before, life's not about doing what you want.

You know, if it's humanly possible, I'll get it for you. And if it ain't humanly possible, I'll die trying.

For a while I considered dropping out of Barnard to help. It felt unbearably selfish, just downright wrong, to be indulging myself with