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Quotes About Commitment

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn.
~ Unknown
Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.
~ Unknown
Everything that you put in you get out of life. If you put in honest, true passion every day that you live, that will be what you collect from life, almost without even trying.
~ Unknown
No one succeeds without effort... those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
~ Unknown
And I will always keep a fire," he said, "burning for you always. If you will allow me.
~ Madeline Miller
It was no world I knew, but I would live in it as long as he would let me.
~ Madeline Miller
He no longer belongs to me alone.
~ Madeline Miller
Every night when he slept, I stood over his bed and told myself: tomorrow I will do better.
~ Madeline Miller
Yet at least what you loved, you fought for.
~ Madeline Miller
Will you come with me?" he asked. The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death. "Yes," I whispered. "Yes.
~ Madeline Miller
I would not care," I said. The words scrabbled from my mouth. "Whatever you became. It would not matter to me. We would be together." "I know," he said quietly, but did not look at me.
~ Madeline Miller
will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
~ Madeline Miller
It is mostly will. Will and work.
~ Madeline Miller
I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it." "Why me?" "Because you're the reason. Swear it." "I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.
~ Madeline Miller
When I am dead, I charged you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.
~ Madeline Miller
Si tienes que ir, sabes que iré contigo.
~ Madeline Miller
i will never leave him. it will always be this, for as long as he will let me.
~ Madeline Miller
I have done my best," he says. "Let it be remembered I tried.
~ Madeline Miller
If you have to go, I will go with you.
~ Madeline Miller
Odysseus looks at the young man's implacable face. "I have done my best," he says. "Let it be remembered I tried." I remember.
~ Madeline Miller
His eyes were unwavering, green flecked with gold. A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
~ Madeline Miller
Briseis," I said. "If I ever wished to take a wife, it would be you." "But you do not wish to take a wife." "No," I said, as gently as I could.
~ Madeline Miller
His voice was quiet. "You do not give things up so easily now as you once did," he said.
~ Madeline Miller
I know. They never let you be famous and happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret." "Tell me." I loved it when he was like this. "I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it." "Why me?" "Because you're the reason. Swear it." "I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes. "I swear it," he echoed.
~ Madeline Miller