Quotes About Commitments

Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Sometimes your pledges become your problems.

One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serfdom or permanent slavery? It happens, we'd suggest, precisely when promises become impersonal, transferable – in a nutshell, bureaucratized.

The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

I watched 'House of Cards' in three days - and only in three days because I had other responsibilities, like my daughter. I couldn't just sit there and watch the entire season in just one sitting.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad's factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I absolutely loved it, and I think I learnt more there than I did at Cambridge, actually, in terms of how hard work is and how tough it is finding a job, keeping a job, managing a job and family and commitments outside of work.

We can't let government make long-term commitments that it may not be able to keep.

The place where we keep our clothes isn't always the only place where we keep our commitments.

I'm not a fan of early commitments. I just think people right now are handcuffing players, pressuring players and I don't want to do that.

It's hard to balance work-life commitments and sometimes you feel you're not doing anything particularly well.

A lot of U.S. businesses are really going into the agenda of sustainability, and some are making their own commitments in emissions reductions in their own operations.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

It was true that much got done during the days and weeks of flying high, but it was also true that one generated new projects and made new commitments, which then had to be completed during the grayer times. I was constantly chasing the tail of my own brain, recovering from, or delving into, new moods and new experiences.

As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are...can give them real staying power

A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.

It is only in staring horrors in the face and insisting on their systemic, not accidental, character that theory sustains radical commitments.

I learned that if I didn't plant in the spring, I'd have to beg in the fall. I learned that with everything in life, including my career, I had to plant the seed of achievement so I could reap the rewards. I learned that I had to plant seeds of new ideas, new beliefs, and new commitments every day in order to find happiness and meaning in a new career and in my life. The same philosophy is true for you!

J'imagine que je dois bénir la notion de civilisation, qui a contaminé de politesse les moindres aspects de nos engagements,sinon, j'aurais sans doute posé des lapins au monde entier.