Quotes About Commitment

You don't love yourself enough. Or you'd love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat.

I do my own duty: the other things do not distract me. They are either inanimate or irrational, or have lost the road and are ignorant of the true way.

That I have such a wife, so obedient

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what's in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can—if you do everything as

De Alejandro el platónico, el no repetir a menudo y sin necesidad, sea de viva voz, sea por escrito, que estoy muy ocupado; y no rechazar así, sistemáticamente, los deberes que las relaciones sociales imponen, pretextando un agobio de quehaceres.

Busyness is no excuse for neglecting our duties to family, friends, and community.

every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. In

Practice even at the things that you have lost all hope of achieving. For the left hand, though inefficient at everything else through lack of practice, is more powerful than the right when it comes to gripping the bridle; for it has had good practice at that.

our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to.  4.

At break of day, when you are reluctant to get up, have this thought ready to mind: 'I am getting up for a man's work.

People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat.

What art and profession soever thou hast learned, endeavour to affect it, and comfort thyself in it; and pass the remainder of thy life as one who from his whole heart commits himself and whatsoever belongs unto him, unto the gods: and as for men, carry not thyself either tyrannically or servilely towards any.

Be a boxer, not a gladiator, in the way you act on your principles. The gladiator takes up his sword only to put it down again, but the boxer is never without his fist and only has to clinch it.

Make no difference in doing thy duty whether thou art shivering or warm, drowsy or sleep-satisfied, defamed or extolled, dying or anything else. For the act of dying too is one of the acts of life. So it is enough in this also to get the work in hand done well.

The only course open is to pledge myself to the cause of making sure that the things he died for are not forgotten.

It is a life of deep commitment and gentle certitude. Deep commitment, because it involves one's whole being. Gentle certitude, because it is gentle, soft, regarding particular verbal formulations of Christianity, including precise doctrinal statements. These are always human products. They are to be valued as such and to be reformulated when necessary. Depth of commitment and dogmatic certainty about a particular set of beliefs are not the same thing.

As we see in Josephus, the phrase means, basically, "Give up your agendas and trust me for mine.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

For what I lack in experience I make up for in diligence.

In omni disciplina informa est artis praeceptio sine summa assiduitate exercitationis.

This did not prevent him from going to print shop every morning and working as conscientiously as ever, following the advice of Yochanan ben Zakkai: 'If you are planting an olive tree when you learn that the Messiah has come, finish planting the olive tree and then go to greet the messiah.

She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.