Quotes About Commitment

De enige houding die een superieur mens past, is koppig doorgaan met iets waarvan hij inziet dat het geen zin heeft, zichzelf onderwerpen aan een discipline waarvan hij weet dat ze vruchteloos is, en steevast filosofische en metafysische normen hanteren waarvan hij aanvoelt dat ze geen betekenis hebben.

I'm not attached to anything. I'm attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Two people can remain in love-- a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism--only if their common desire for each other unites in a greater desire for God.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint...

You can't just say NO, he said. You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end of it. One way or another.

What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

She was seeing that her father spent his last years with his own family and not in a decayed boarding house full of old women whose heads jiggled. She was doing her duty. She had brothers and sisters who were not.

You have to stop confusing a madness with a mission

Lisez, et ne rêvez pas. Plongez-vous dans de longues études. Il n'y a de continuellement bon que l'habitude d'un travail entêté. Il s'en dégage un opium qui engourdit l'âme… Read and do not dream. The only thing that is continually good is the habit of stubborn work. It emits an opium that numbs the soul…

I want Edelman to remain a family business.

Basketball is more than our family business; it's our family passion.

I'd been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life.

Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.

I separate my family life from fighting.

I am very much a family man.

From the moment I was a teenager, I wanted to be a father, wanted to be a family man.

I see myself as a family man.

I am a family man at heart.

I'm a family man.

I am a family man, and I have children.

I had left everything because of my marriage. As a girl, I know what my responsibility towards my husband and his family is, and I used to do everything according to his will. I kept all his family members in mind, but he still expected more from me.