Quotes About Commitment

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

Stubborness is no more than a way of approaching things: it can be used for unworthy aims, but also worthy ones.

No me importa nada más, le juro. Me alcanza saberla conmigo en este entuerto. Sabiendo eso, me aguanto el silencio y la distancia y los años y lo que venga. Eso es todo, Ofelia. Disculpe la osadía de escribirle esta carta. Y disculpe la osadía de decirle, en cinco letras imperdonables: la amo.

Lo que tiene que decirle, lo que necesita decirle, y lo que al mismo tiempo le horroriza que sepa, es que él la quiere con él, para siempre, en todos lados y a todas horas o a casi todas, porque ha naufragado en tal estado de adoración que no entiende la vida sin ella

Pero nada. Si me querés, quedate. Bancate lo que te pasa. Bancátelo todo. Bancátelo por mí. Cuando yo crezca hacé lo que quieras. Pero ahora quedate. Soy chica. Te necesito. Aunque no encuentres otro motivo para quedarte, acá estoy yo, encontrame a mí como motivo. Y si no soy suficiente motivo, andate bien a la mierda.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

I shall never sacrifice a friend to an ideal. I shall never desert a friend to save an institution. I shall never betray a friend for the sake of the law. Great nations may fall in ruin before I shall sell a friend to preserve them. I pray to the God within me to give me the power to live by this design.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

I will not. I will never surrender. I will fight through to the finsh, whatever the outcome. I will not quit. I will not betray and desert the best thing in my life. No, no, I will not surrender...Earth is the place for love.

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be? She had given up dancing-the dance-because it was too demanding, because it required an almost total devotion which she was unwilling to give. The cruelest art. 

In my case, saving the world was only a hobby.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

successful people regularly focus on the core purpose of their profession or life. True experts continually deepen their mastery of the basics. Trumpeting

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action.

But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.

Marriage is a generosity contest, and she won.

I gave her everything I could give," He winces as if there's a nerve which gets trapped in his heart whenever it pulls in a certain direction.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

You Mean It You cook because you decide to cook. You decide to take it on and everything that comes with it. You cook because you mean it. Your heart and hands work more and more in alignment with your clear intention. You'll see it through because you decided to see it through—and because the work itself is making your love manifest. Food appears!

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

I am only one, butt still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.