Quotes About Commitment

Macbeth: If we should fail—Lady Macbeth: We fail!But screw your courage to the sticking-place,And we'll not fail.

I have not kept my square, but that to comeShall all be done by the rule.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

Had I but serv'd my God with half the zealI serv'd my king, he would not in mine ageHave left me naked to mine enemies.

I do perceive here a divided duty.

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.

Is it so nominated in the bond?

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar;Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

Romeo: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swearThat tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops—Juliet: O! swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,That monthly changes in her circled orb,Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure.

It did me yeoman's service.

I'll warrant him heart-whole.

'Tis not in the bond.

Let him look to his bond.

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

The course of true love was never easy.

To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

don't understand the concept of retirement.

Any success I have had began by my showing up on time, being prepared, and doing the best possible job. There is a lot to be said for that. That isn't wisdom; that's common sense.

Any success I have had began by my showing up on time, being prepared, and doing the best possible job.

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.