Quotes About Commitment

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

succeeded in making a small, jerky motion. "I was only doing my job.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to write than it is to study about writing.

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy- or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others... the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

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

The best way to stop smoking is to just stop — no ifs, ands or butts.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

La fe de Abraham fue probada cuando Dios le pidió dar todo. La fe no puede ser menos que total. Confiar en Dios significa verlo solo a Él, encontrar en Él todas nuestras esperanzas, no retener nada, no tener ninguna reserva. La fe es compromiso. Pero solo porque la fe mira a Dios y no a nosotros, el dar de la fe es realmente recibir. En compromiso, el precio que la fe paga es todo. Pero en confianza total, el precio es nada. La fe mira a Dios, no al hombre, como el dador.

All for love, and nothing for reward.

For me a current lover has always been like whatever current book I'm writing - an obsessive project orienting all my thoughts.

The most important thing a writer can do is to keep writing, even when the muse is elusive and the words don't come.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed.

But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.