Quotes About Commitment

Halt by the headstone naming The heart no longer stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.

To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.' Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything.

Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Sometime duty calls at ten p.m. on a Wednesday night.

Decisions are made by those who show up

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

Your spouse is your closest relative and is entitled to depend on you as a committed ally, supporter, and champion.

On the road of abnegation," M. Vianney was wont to say, "it is only the first step that is difficult; once we have started we go on almost mechanically.

Unconditional love is hard to compete with.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.

De meeste vrienden die eens een keertje met me meelopen laten me al na een paar kilometer in de steek. Ze krijgen de slappe lach van het lopen. Ik niet. Er valt voor mij niets te lachen. Hardlopen is voor mij een heel ernstige zaak. In Duitse klassieke muziek wordt ook niet veel gelachen, dus waarom tijdens het hardlopen wel?

This is another aspect of nik??, the obligation to satisfy one's spouse. Nik?? and unconsummated marriage are mutually exclusive. Abstinence of a hundred and twenty days is a maximum not to be exceeded in any circumstances.

There is no such thing as luck in life; it all boils down to pure hard work.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I thought you'd come back to get married,' he said with a grin. 'Not to carry out an archaeological project.' 'Cut out that getting married stuff,' I said, and in this way we smilingly slid past the troublesome moment.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

Yet a cruel world too often injures my feelings, by wondering how a person, possessed of domestic attachments, can sacrifice them by absenting himself for years.

My own inclinations must not be followed--to duty I sacrifice them.

Should I draw you the picture of my heart, it would be what I hope you still would love, though it contained nothing new. The early possession you obtained there, and the absolute power you have ever maintained over it, leave not the smallest space unoccupied.