Quotes About Commitment

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.

From John Vorhaus's character Vic Mirplo in The Albuquerque Turkey: Procrastinate later.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

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Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.

The only insult I've ever received in my adult life was when someone asked me, "Do you have a hobby?" A HOBBY?! DO I LOOK LIKE A FUCKING DABBLER?!

Sorry don't get it done, Dude.

When you side with a man you stay with him, and if you can't do that you're like some animal. You're finished.

Betrayal means that, faced with opposition or temptation or ridicule, we fail to stand by a commitment to another. It's another instance of that vicious lack of integrity which affects human life and fellowship—we make promises but break them; our word is not our bond; our fidelity is worthless.

Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.

Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.

Get on fire for God, and people will come to watch you burn!"-John Wesley

As with any new skill, attitude, style, or belief, adopting a coaching ethos requires commitment, practice, and some time before it flows naturally and its effectiveness is optimized.

Deeds, not words shall speak to me.

Stoner and Masters smiled at each other, and they spoke no more of the question that evening. But for years afterward, at odd moments, Stoner remembered what Masters had said; and though it brought him no vision of the University to which he had committed himself, it did reveal to him something about his relationship to the two men, and it gave him a glimpse of the corrosive and unspoiled bitterness of youth.

He did his work at the University as he did his work on the farm—thoroughly, conscientiously, with neither pleasure nor distress.

Innocent of fashion or custom, they came to their studies as Stoner had dreamed that a student might—as if those studies were life itself and not specific means to specific ends.

It occurred to him that he had never before known the body of another; and it occurred to him further that that was the reason he had always somehow separated the self of another from the body that carried that self around. And it occurred to him at last, with the finality of knowledge, that he had never known another human being with any intimacy or trust or with the human warmth of commitment.

You mustn't give it up," he said, and his voice took on an urgency that he could not understand. "No matter how hard it will seem sometimes, you mustn't give it up. It's too good for you to give it up. Oh, it's good, there's no doubt of it.

We call our selves followers but we refuse to follow him to the Unreached. We call ourselves Christians but refuse to lay down our life as he did that they might have life. We sing songs for him with our lips but deny him with our lives