Quotes About Commitment

Forbes had fully invested herself in her sentences. She had made them her own, agreed to live or die by them, taken total responsibility for them. How had she done this? I didn't know. But I do now: she'd revised them.

For every hundred bucks I make, I set aside five for Bernie's stone. What do you write on something like that? LIFE PASSED HER BY? DIED DISAPPOINTED? CAME BACK TO LIFE BUT FELL APART?

William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. "The real question posed to us is the effort we are willing to make

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

La mayoría de los matrimonios, la mayoría de las relaciones amorosas, logra perdurar gracias a un rosario de reconciliaciones, no siempre veraces.

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own life.

We seem to have a strange idea of Christian service. We will buy books, travel miles to hear a speaker on blessings, pay large sums to hear a group singing the latest Christian songs--but we forget that we are soldiers.

There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!

I've been in the Bible every day since I've been the president.

We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.

I was falling hard for Laura. I was not much of a cat person, but I knew our relationship was solid when I bonded with her black-and-white shorthair, Dewey, named for the decimal system.

If you lead, we'll be behind you, one House leader said, but we'll be way behind you.

It's hard to imagine how Dad managed to do it all—to be a top student, a star athlete, a man with a huge group of friends, and a devoted husband and father. As Mother put it with characteristic bluntness, "He worked hard." That's true. George Bush did not waste time. He filled every minute of every day with activity.

We find the fullness of life not only in options but in commitments.

America has an honored tradition of never leaving its soldiers on the battlefield—and we never should.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)

99% OF FAILURE COME FROM PEOPLE WHO MAKE EXCUSES

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do---then do it with all your strength.

The only man who is truly happy is a man who has an idée fixe. It takes up his every minute, fills any empty spaces in his thought, sneaks unexpected pleasures into his boredom, gives direction to his idle hours, again and again enlivens the stagnant waters of existence with a surging current.

The committed man, whatever he is, makes me afraid, makes me bristle. I wonder if he is sincere. And, if he appears to me to be so, I wonder if he is intelligent.