Quotes About Commitment

You just pick someone who has your back and wants the same things as you do, and then you make it work.

No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.

If he had a wife, he'd have warmth in his bed, to be sure. But if he had a wife, he'd have a wealth of other problems. Like having a wife.

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.

We must be doing something right.' 'Tis mostly your doing,' Furlong admitted. 'Where am I ever only away all day then home to the table and up to bed and gone again before they rise.

I was aware of doing only a so-so job on the grown-up career front, but I didn't really care, because there were two big exam questions I wanted to be sure I answered fully: the question of art, and the question of love.

The people who succeed are the ones who think through what they really want from the experience and then work incredibly hard, day after day, to attain their goals. They don't just flop around like fish out of water. They have a vision, and they work their asses off to make it a reality.

The excitement in London gave no guarantees about the future, and he still committed himself to no direct expression of opinion in his Diary.

Is focused on a few important goals (at most), not off chasing every distraction;

But there's one thing you must remember. Whether you want it or not, once you have created bonds between you and other people, those bonds will never disappear.

Because we knew you were waiting, we did our best so that we'd return.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

It's the people on the inside who say, "Yes, we are Christians," and then live as though Christ had never lived.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

Persistence is our effort, giving up is the reward.

Eu sempre disse a mim mesma que o amor que os outros têm pela gente cria mais deveres do que o amor que a gente tem pelos outros.

I was being carried off by the demonic. For the inexpressive is diabolic. A person who isn't committed to hope lives the demonic. A person who has the courage to cast off feelings discovers the ample life of an extremely busy silence, the same that exists in the cockroach, the same in the stars, the same in the self — the demonic precedes the human. And the person who sees that presentness burns as if seeing the God. Prehuman divine life is of a presentness that burns.

Ik had de moet niet om geen belofte meer te zijn en bleef mezelf beloven, als een volwassene die de moed niet heeft om in te zien dat hij volwassen is en doorgaat zichzelf rijpheid te beloven.

Ik had de moed niet om geen belofte meer te zijn en bleef mezelf beloven, als een volwassene die de moed niet heeft om in te zien dat hij volwassen is en doorgaat zichzelf rijpheid te beloven.

Often, I thought: "Surely this is it. He has reached the breaking point." He seemed at the very end of his power and resources. But he kept coming until I wondered whether I had not reached the breaking point. The only thing that kept me going was the certainty that without me there would be no one.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.