Quotes About Commitment

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Who asks for me, the Shelley of my age,must lay his heart out for my bed and board.

The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.

Solid, sound leadership… and ironclad determination to face discouragement, risk, and increasing work without flinching, will always characterize the man who has a sure-enough, bang-up fighting unit.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.

Princeton in the nation's service

Rebecca West would not be a passing fancy; she would assume a leading role in his life—he could feel it in his bones—and was he ready for that?

But there is one thing that is privileged to be a paradoxical sign of God, in relation to which men are able to manifest their deepest commitment — our Neighbor. The sacrament of our Neighbor!

The most important question we ask when writing a Love Story is: "What's to stop them?" For where's the story in a Love Story? Two people meet, fall in love, marry, raise a family, support each other till death do them part … what could be more boring than that?

Generally, great writers are not eclectic. Each tightly focuses his oeuvre on one idea, a single subject that ignites his passion, a subject he pursues with beautiful variation through a lifetime of work.

Story is about thoroughness, not shortcuts.

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

Put a lot of your eggs in a few baskets and focus. Follow One Course Until Successful.

If you have any desire to be rich, you must focus. Do not do what poor and middle-class people do: put their few eggs in many baskets. Put a lot of your eggs in a few baskets and focus. Follow One Course Until Successful.

you have any desire to be rich, you must focus. Do not do what poor and middle-class people do: put their few eggs in many baskets. Put a lot of your eggs in a few baskets and FOCUS: Follow One Course Until Successful. If you

A lawyer caught in the toils of a murder case is like a man newly fallen in love: his involvement is total.

A promise made is a debt unpaid

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

He was one of those people who feel so compelled to fulfill duties that they go plunging into great collapsing edifices constructed entirely of disagreeable duties simply out of the fear that some secret, inconspicuous duty might somehow elude them.

Father in heaven, my Lord and Friend, I gratefully commit this season and the next to Your care. I ask that You fill me with Your Spirit so as I face the inevitable challenges, I do not panic or despair, losing sight of Your faithfulness and steadfast love. I pray this in Your name. Amen.