Quotes About Commitment

It takes a commitment to nurture family relationships over years and decades:

Maybe calling it being hitched ain't the prettiest way to say you're married, but it's the truth to my mind and true in a good way, because you're working together and depending on each other, and you're sharing the load.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

Trust is something you have to practice. Someday you're going to fall in love with someone, and you need to understand what trust is all about. What you doing now is developing bad practices of betraying people's trust.

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

He believed "the leading rule"21 for any lawyer was "diligence." Lincoln counseled, "Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done today.… Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

I have always been impressed by those indivilduals that love another so hard. Now I know, it is not how hard you love, but how. "True You Love Until The End".

THIS BOOK HAS been over a quarter of a century in the making,

In the same way that a person cannot love the Yankees and the Red Sox or follow veganism and frequently devour a steak, one cannot really love Jesus and wish to follow him and also vote for a person who so clearly embodies the opposite of everything Christ taught, died for, and demands of us.

Dedicated to truth.

Whoever we cast our vote for in the next presidential election or in the elections to come, we must vote for someone who is committed to both believing the truth and telling the truth no matter what the cost might be to them personally or to their administration. To do otherwise is to waste our vote on someone who is not worthy of the office of President of the United States.

In order to retain a commitment to Jesus's new messianic community with its countercultural values, Christians must accept the fact that the faithful church will often—perhaps always—be a minority community in a broken world.

Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.

As a heterosexual ballet dancer, you develop a thick skin.

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem.

Martha Elizabeth Baker.

Life is to be lived for an audience of One.

True revival will come when God is taken seriously by those of us who call ourselves Christ followers—take God seriously and finally believe what we say we believe. True revival will be akin to spiritual seismic activity, shaking us to our core, allowing us to see the profound overtake the profane, with the promise that our lives will never be the same.

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.

You are ours, Lilly Darling, and will be ours until we're dragged kicking and screaming from this world into the flames. And when we're all in Hell, we will take on Lucifer himself if he dares to keep us from you.