Quotes About Commitment

I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you'll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.

Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'.

And my wife…well, I guess she'd earned her scene with me, but still; did she really have that much reason to be angry? I mean, when she married me she knew what she was getting into, didn't she? She had been my mistress, for Chrissake! That spoke volumes, didn't it"?

but you still need to state them every time you bring up the expenditure of energy.

return. In essence, you want to crystallize the fact that once they say yes they're going to receive a massive number of valuable benefits, and the amount of energy they'll have to expend will be considerably lower. By the way, one company that does this just about as well as a company can possibly do it is Amazon.

It was a hefty sum, $5 million, and in truth it had little to do with setting them up. In point of fact, they paid me out of loyalty, and out of respect. And at the very crux of it, what held it all together was the fact that they still considered themselves Strattonites. And I considered them such too.

We stick together from now on." He spoke quietly, but he stared me right in the eye as he said it. Be still, my beating heart.

I was elected to lead—not to watch the polls.

If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.

You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too.

GET ON THE TREADMILL!

We're all free to chose some people to love, and then do it.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.

Y el amor real, el verdadero, se basa en el hecho de que el otro ame todavía más que uno mismo gracias a ello.

Curiosamente defendía a su madre. No podía culparla. Se había visto empujada a hacer cuanto hizo. Quererla representaba una deuda, un pago, su propio compromiso. Y la posibilidad de facilitarle la paz interior.

When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.

uno sufre porque ama, no por estar casado.

Isso de dar um pouquinho antes de casar sucede a três por dois e com gente muito boa, minha cara…

Muita gente, minha filha, só não dá antes de casar porque não sabe que é tão bom ou porque o noivo não pede. Afinal, antes ou depois, que diferença faz, me diga?

Eram assim as noites de amor desses bons esposos, com seguro bis aos sábados, facultativo às quartas-feiras.

A ésa, su mujer, no la tenía sólo en la cama. Estaba para siempre clavada en su pecho, cosida a su cuerpo, en la planta de sus pies, en el cuero cabelludo, en la punta de los dedos.

Porque no hablas? ¿Te parecen buenas las condiciones que pone? -Sí, María. ¿Y cuáles son las tuyas en pago de tanto bien? -Una sola. -Dila. -Tú la sabes. -Sí, sí; pero hoy si debes decirla. -Que me ames siempre así, respondió, y su mano se enlazó más estrechamente con la mía.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.