Quotes about Commitment

I will form good habits and become their slave.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." —Epictetus

You can achieve the greatest things in the world, but if it is at the cost of your marriage or family, it is worth nothing.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

I will do what I promised. He whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.