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Quotes About Commitments

Manybear the label "Christian," yet their Christianity has no real impact on life-defining decisions, just as Elimelech bore the name "My God is king" yet lived in a way that made it evident that God wasn't his king at all. The roads we choose for ourselves often make our deepest heart commitments plain for all to see.
~ Unknown
We must keep the promises and commitments we've made to our military veterans by ensuring needed services and care are always available and delivered in a timely fashion.
~ Elise Stefanik
Our schedules are always filled with other things.
~ Unknown
I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of it would count.
~ Joan Didion
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
~ Denis Waitley
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
~ Denis Waitley
As your Daily Planner assumes its place among your "tools of daily life" (i.e., keys, cell phone, wallet, purse, etc.), you will use it to schedule upcoming commitments, such as social events, exams, meetings, appointments, etc. as they arise. In addition to organizing your day, the time spent thinking about and planning your activities is a "priming" activity that increases the likelihood of behavioral follow-through.
~ Unknown
Lately I've been anxious about pretty much everything. Even little things like making small commitments have left me paralyzed. I've become cautious, afraid of taking risks and making mistakes because I've made so many already and I fear I won't have time to clean up the mistakes anymore.
~ Lori Gottlieb
As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.
~ Lucy Powell
I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.
~ John Cheever
I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.
~ Bradley Walsh
Doing films and TV together becomes difficult to manage when you have too many things in your hand.
~ Vishwajeet Pradhan
my deepest intention is to inspire and motivate you to look inside yourself for your own commitments—to ponder your own role in creating the future you want for yourself and for future generations.
~ Unknown
She never wants to do most of the things she forces herself to do by deciding them when she's upset. It's just that she feels trapped into following through on her promises. Even the stupid ones.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
~ Twyla Tharp
We accept so many commitments in regard to life that a time comes when, despairing of ever managing to fulfill them all, we face the graves, we call upon death, "death, which brings help to destinies that have trouble coming true." But while death may exempt us from commitments we have made in regard to life, it cannot exempt us from our commitments to ourselves, especially the most important one: namely, the commitment to live in order to be worthy and deserving.
~ Marcel Proust
The government and its representatives repeatedly constructed Canada by using the language and meaning of Aboriginal peoples – the language of long-term commitments in the most complete sense. As the strength of indigenous peoples returns, the courts are holding our governments to the language they used in order to gain power. That is good for all of us, and
~ John Ralston Saul
I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
~ Taraji P. Henson
There is a great deal of nonsense written on the subject of diversity and multiculturalism, but the fact remains that the great challenge facing our world is that of maintaining clear convictions and strong commitments while living in peaceful proximity with people with different convictions and commitments, avoiding brittle bigotry on the one hand and soggy relativism on the other.
~ Unknown
I think the big problem is what I call "possessive monogamy." I think we should have a lot more freedom in our sexual lives. We should stop making monogamous commitments.
~ Chester Brown
Some people have the time but they don't have time while others have time but do not have the time.
~ Jacques Prévert
su necesidad de sentirse superior a los demás le da el derecho de ser un transgresor. No siente obligación alguna de respetar leyes, reglas, costumbres o compromisos.
~ Moisés Naím
Además, su necesidad de sentirse superior a los demás le da el derecho de ser un transgresor. No siente obligación alguna de respetar leyes, reglas, costumbres o compromisos.
~ Moisés Naím
Fucking supercilious Polity minds. They could be so super intelligent, but they had no real idea about her. About the alliances, responsibilities, commitments and the sheer difficulty involved in relinquishing something she'd fought so hard to build, and it had no appreciation of just how vulnerable she'd be if she let it go. They never went through anything like this—just adjusted themselves either physically or mentally to suit current circumstances.
~ Neal Asher