Quotes about Commitment

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

But it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.

After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...

Here were two people who had penetrated farther than she into the labyrinth of the wedded state, and struggled through some of its thorniest passages; and yet both, one consciously, the other half-unaware, testified to the mysterious fact which was already dawning on her: that the influence of a marriage begun in mutual understanding is too deep not to reassert itself even in the moment of flight and denial.

He had no desire to marry at all—that had been the whole truth of it till he met Undine Spragg. And now—

Ah, don't let us undo what you've done!' she cried. 'I can't go back now to that other way of thinking. I can't love you unless I give you up.

Sometimes we would prefer to die for Jesus than to live for Him.

An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.