Quotes About Commitment

But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.

You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no longer. I'm still what I was, and you'll always see it, and you'll always grant me the same response, even if there's a greater one that you grant another man. No matter what you feel for him, it will not change what you feel for me, and it won't treason to either, because it comes from the same root, it's the same payment in answer to the same values.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil.

Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both.

There's nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work.

Do you want me to remind you that you once swore to make my happiness aim of your life? And that you cant say in all honesty whether i am happy or unhappy, because you haven't even inquired whether i exist?

The effort he demanded of his employees was hard to perform; the effort of himself was hard to believe.

There's no such thing as a lousy job-only lousy men who don't care to do it.

Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake: he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart

I can do nothing halfway. Those who can, have a fissure somewhere inside. Most people have many. They lie to themselves—not to know that. I've never lied to myself.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the halfway, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Patriotism does not mean that you think your country is perfect, or blameless, or even particularly likeable on balance; nor does it mean that you serve it blindly, go where it tells you to go and kill whom it tells you to kill. It means that you are committed to keeping it alive and making it better, that you will do whatever seems necessary (up to and including dying) to protect it whenever you, personally, perceive a mortal threat to it, military or otherwise.

Mrs. Martin, I happen to be committed to a course of action. That does not mean I don't care whether the action is good or bad.

A devotion to principle, whether that principle makes much sense to the rest of us, is usually something to marvel at.

Everything else can wait but your search for God cannot wait.

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Hutton and Franklin spent all of January 3 together, in the course of which Franklin evidently informed his old friend, "You have only left us the option of perishing by you or with you: we have chosen the latter alternative.

Not long thereafter Lawson committed an indiscretion that left him issuing solemn apologies to the London ministry. He acknowledged having dishonored his profession with his "uneven and unwary conversation." He battled for several years to clear his name.

He muscled words into deeds

If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!

It is believed that Revson is the author of the oft-quoted statement, uttered during one long working weekend to his subordinates, "If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.