Quotes About Commitment

They will commit to reversing the vicious cycle even if that means living less comfortably.

Your forefathers worked hard, fought hard, and died hard to make this Empire for you. Don't let them look down from heaven, and see you loafing about with hands in your pockets doing nothing to keep it up.

The scouts' motto is founded on my initials. It is: Be Prepared, which means, you are always to be in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty.

It seems to me now that true love is the only theme for either song or story.

Having a self-published book is akin to having a newborn baby - if you don't give it the loving care and attention it deserves, it will die.

Great ends demand great means.

Marriage is a serious undertaking. You must submit to family congratulations on certain events, and have a nursery at the top of the house. One doesn't know what a nursery may lead to.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

I know I am finished with a book when I never want to see it again. And if you have worked at it long enough to hate the sight of it, I promise you will come to love it again some sweet day. That is when you will know you did a writer's work.

Does he make things happen, or does he make excuses?

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then — he needn't hope to find himself again.

When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water (he cups his hands) and if he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again. Some men aren't capable of this, but I'd be loathe to think your father one of them.

A man takes an oath only when he wants to commit himself quite exceptionally to the statement, when he wants to make an identity between the truth of it and his own virtue; he offers himself as a guarantee. And it works.

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

Two things are owed to truthfulness — lasting marriages and short friendships.

Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same."