Quotes About Commitment

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

El amor es un préstamo hipotecario a cuenta de un futuro incierto e inescrutable.

Los símbolos de decisiones identitarias grabados en el propio cuerpo sugieren, por el contrario, que la identidad que estos implican es, para el sujeto portador, un compromiso más serio y duradero, y no solo un capricho momentáneo. El tatuaje, milagro entre milagros, señala al mismo tiempo la estabilidad (tal vez incluso la irreversibilidad) intencional del compromiso y la libertad de elección que caracteriza la idea de derecho a la autodefinición y a su ejercicio.

el amor implica el impulso de proteger, de nutrir, de dar refugio, y también de acariciar y mimar, o de proteger celosamente, cercar, encarcelar. Amar significa estar al servicio, estar a disposición, esperando órdenes, pero también puede significar la expropiación y confiscación de toda responsabilidad. Dominio a través de la entrega, sacrificio que paga con engrandecimiento.

Invertir sentimientos profundos en la relación y jurar fidelidad implica correr un enorme riesgo: eso lo convierte a usted en alguien dependiente de su pareja (aunque señalemos que la dependencia —que rápidamente ha cobrado un matiz peyorativo— es la base de la responsabilidad moral hacia el Otro, tanto para Lögstrup como para Levinas).

El empleado ideal sería una persona que no tenga lazos, compromisos ni ataduras emocionales preexistentes y que además las rehúya a futuro.

In evaluating your relationship, you will find it useful to keep in mind your goals in marriage and how you can best achieve them. As a guide, I have listed what I regard as the aims for an ideal marriage.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensitivity to the validity of the ultimate ideals and values that fluctuates rather than the ultimate ideals and values?

The central commandment is in relation to the person. But religion today has lost sight of the person. Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. It has fallen victim to the belief that the real is only that which is capable of being registered by fact-finding surveys.

Unless we are involved, the problem is not present.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.