Quotes About Commitment

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time to pursue them is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.

I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.

Implicit in sloth is the unwillingness to exert oneself in the performance of duty because of the sacrifice and effort required.

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.

Not even Achilles will bring all his words to fulfillment.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.

Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.

Es mucho más fácil quedar bien como amante que como marido; porque es mucho mas fácil ser oportuno e ingenioso de vez en cuando que todos los días

A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage.

If I'd had a man of my own, I'd have followed him . . . down to hell.

People who love don't doubt in anything, or doubt in everything.

No sooner therefore do you enter society, instead of living a life apart, than you are bound to consider its conditions binding; a contract is signed between you.