Quotes About Commitment

Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

I]f you want to learn kung fu, you must learn to break bricks with your head. If you want to be a fiction writer, you must learn to stare at a blank page with nothing but your name on the top without flinching, without weeping, without getting up to get a beer to fortify your faltering courage.

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

It is not for us to ask the Lord to discharge us from his army, no matter what fighting we have done. For Christ will have no discharged soldiers, except those who have overcome death itself. . . .

Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is   enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone.

So also we, if we are to give ourselves wholly to Christ, must break away from all the entanglements of this world.

There is no end and no limit to the obstacles of the man who wants to pursue what is right and at the same time shrinks back from self-denial.

May we be prepared, whatever happens, rather to undergo a hundred deaths than to turn aside from the profession of true piety, in which we know our safety to be laid up. And may we so glorify thy name as to be partakers of that glory which has been acquired for us through the blood of thine only-begotten Son. Amen.

The Church is our mother, inasmuch as God has committed to her the kind office of bringing us up in the faith until we attain full age.

Whoever wishes to have the half of Christ, loses   the whole.

Prayer is learning to live, without expecting to see results; it is learning to love, without hoping to see return; it is learning to be, without demanding to have. We cannot live and love and simply be, unless we are consumed by a total commitment to detachment.

There is a price to be paid for everything, and it is a good idea to find out that price before you make the agreement.

There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature.

A job, in their view, was a job, and, as with most jobs, you just had to find that perfect balance between doing as little as possible so you didn't get tired, and just enough so that you didn't get fired.

He had loved her as much as a man can love his wife, and so nothing more need be said.

You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don't do fractions.

were pressed into service, although

He'd eat it, though, and not just because he was hungry. He'd have eaten it even if Hayley Conyer had force-fed him caviar and foie gras during their meeting. He'd eat it because his wife had prepared it for him.