Quotes About Commitment

de lo que se conoce con el nombre de perseverancia cuando la causa es buena,—y con el de obstinación cuando es mala.

Marriage, it turned out, was a series of small events.

Did you read last nights assignments? Say yes' and get hammered again. Say no' and the same thing would happen.

Most life is spent doing things we don't want to do.

I have to go. Boss has this weird idea that I should actually work while he's paying me.

You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.

little homey details to remind Wife Number One who wears the diamond ring around here.

To be the best, you have to give everything all the time, then you have to give some more...

Once I had been jerked back to reality, like I was in a log on Splash Mountain and someone quickly applied the brakes, I knew this had been a terrible choice, but I was in it now. There was no getting out; there was no abandoning the mission.

The desperation to support an untenable position to which one is nonetheless committed has caused centuries of extreme mental gymnastics.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

he met a nice girl and got married, and they had a kid, and then either he found out she wasn't so nice after all, or she found out he wasn't, or the discovery was mutual. They got a divorce

philately is far and away the area of my life where I spend the most time and effort making genuinely inconsequential decisions.

And this almost tautological business of having done one's best can't be reserved exclusively for parents.

I know what you mean," I said. "The thing is, it's not something I have to be told. I've always been a stubborn son of a bitch. When I start something I have a hell of a time letting go of it. I think that's the main way I solve things, to tell you the truth. I don't do it by being brilliant. I just hang on like a bulldog until something shakes loose.

When I decided in my mid-fifties to return to a hobby I'd abandoned twenty years earlier, I didn't know what sort of a collector I'd be. As a boy I'd started out collecting everything, then narrowed my focus to British Empire—specifically, to the Scott Specialty Album for Great Britain, British Europe, and British Oceania. In my mid-twenties I'd begun collecting Benelux as well, and in my mid-thirties, when my first marriage ended, I sold everything.

Her efforts to achieve herself had led her always towards, and not away from him.

if you intend to try and work, not to sit under the Tree of Idleness.

In her there was a pliancy, a resilience which was Oriental — a passion to serve.

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Never make a promise which you think is hard to keep. Never make a promise though!!

And it's a sad song, Todd, but it's also a promise. I'll never deceive you and I'll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it's true.