Quotes About Commitment

The end of life is not to be happy nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

After we've discovered what God called us to do, after we've discovered our life's work, we should set out to do that work so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn't do it any better.

If Western civilization does not now respond constructively to the challenge to banish racism, some future historian will have to say that a great civilization died because it lacked the soul and commitment to make justice a reality for all men.

All my adult life I have deplored violence and war as instruments for achieving solutions to mankind's problems. I am firmly committed to the creative power of nonviolence as the force which is capable of winning lasting and meaningful brotherhood and peace.

And when you discover what you're going to be in life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. And

As if the weight of such a commitment to life and health of America were not enough, another burden of responsibility was placed upon me in 1964; and I cannot forget that the Nobel Peace Prize was also a commission, a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for the brotherhood of man. This is a calling that takes me beyond national allegiances.

In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the church. But be assured that my tears have been tears of love. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!

The subject matter of Coldplay songs is deeply intertwined with Chris's frame of mind. He has admitted he needs to be slightly morose, maudlin even, to write well. He cannot see how he can write if he is in a serious and happily committed relationship.

Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back.

I needed to refocus and get my act together.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs – the chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

I'm with you until the end of the line.

Love is a sprint. Marriage is a marathon. An endurance race, if you will.

was a man with whom she could join hands and build a life of trust, and honor and mutual respect. Could she really believe that such a life was possible? Opening

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

Tonight he would do anything in the world for her. Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing to do.

I am your husband. When you feel lonely or afraid or unhappy, it is to me you must come. My arms are here for you, and my strength too for whatever it is worth. You will never be a burden to me.

Eunice Goddard, he said, all pretense of sleepiness gone from his eyes, will you marry me? I have no flowery speech prepared and would feel remarkably idiotic delivering it even if I had. Will you just simply marry me, my love? Because I love you? Will you take the risk? I am fully aware that there is a risk. I can only urge you to take a chance on me while I promise to do my very best to love and cherish you for the rest of my days and even perhaps beyond them.

One cannot try marriage. Once one is in, there is no way out.