Quotes About Commitment

You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.

In order to hit a good golf shot at that moment in time when you're standing over the ball, you must believe that golf shot is the most important things in your life.

I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family.

Every decision we make has to be evaluated in light of our life-changing commitment to being a servant of Christ and His kingdom.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.

The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift." Gross," said Clary. "Must you?" Simon grinned. "I must.

Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.

There will be times, for example, when you feel you are faking it. However hard you try genuinely to practice, it just doesn't feel right. And on the rare occasions it does feel authentic, the sensation is over almost before it began. So, try to be content with your practice, whatever it feels like, even when you are doing little more than paying it lip service, because at least you are making an effort.

I promise myself, once back in Paris, to write every day at least a page about anything, if only to keep my spirit on alert.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?