Quotes About Commitment

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

I kept looking around the bleachers at the audience, middle-aged people in practical clothes. Every single one of them cared about love, but how much? A lot, or only a little bit? The opera went on for a long time. Eventually the two youngest people onstage got married, so we could all go home.

You cannot wait to be in the mood of prayer; you have to use the spur of your Prayer Rule to force yourself to pray," as Sergei Fudel writes in his excellent book Light in the Darkness.[xliii

For too many of us religion has come by inheritance. We have never said to God as Job did, "I had heard of You, Lord, by the hearing of the ear, but now I have seen You." In other words, "Now I have seen You with my own eyes. Now I know you personally." Most of us have become disciples of the disciples of the disciples of someone in the past who had personally experienced God. But it is impossible to transmit real love or commitment this way.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair, "said G.K. Chesterton.

Marriage is a lie—the most beautiful lie two people can share.

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

Having served for nearly half a century in the House of Commons, I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.

I set down my lance, symbol of duty. I spurn those whom I love. I relinquish all, and take up the tools of my quest. No obstacle will stand before me. No plea for help shall find me wanting. No moon will look upon me twice lest I be judged idle. I give my body, heart and soul to the Lady whom I seek...

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

ANDREW: You probably take it more seriously, that's all. MILO: You have to be serious if you want to be in love. ANDREW: You have to be serious about crime if you want to afford to be in love.

ANDREW: Not marriage, Inspector. Sex. Sex is the game with marriage the penalty.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.