Quotes About Commitment

Father Re put his hand on Pino's shoulder. "It sounds like too much to me, too, Pino, but I'm afraid it's not too much for God to ask of you.

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If a bomb's coming at you, it's coming at you. You can't go around worrying about it. Just go on doing what you love, and

Do you do everything with such intensity?" She smiled, cocked her head, and said, "Well, of course. If you're going to do something, don't be half-assed about it.

You'll hear from me, I promise. I'll call for you as soon as I can.

Pino saw the trials of the past few weeks in a different light, and he felt excited and filled with new purpose. "You want me to guide them, Father?" Pino asked. "The three Jews?" "Three of God's children whom he loves," Father Re said. "Will you help them?" "Of course. Yes." The priest put his hand on Pino's shoulder. "I want you to understand that you will be risking your life.

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Your true pilot cares nothing about anything on earth but the river, and his pride in his occupation surpasses the pride of kings.

Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket.

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Live the lifestyle instead of paying lip service to the lifesytle. Live with commitment. With emotional content. Live whatever life you choose honestly. Give up this renaissance man, dilettante bullshit of doing a lot of different things (and none of them very well by real standards). Get to the guts of one thing; accept, without casuistry, the responsability of making a choice.

When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

Not a game, not a game... practice.

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.

If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.

Golf is my boyfriend right now.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.