Quotes About Commitment

We cannot do whatever we please and remain lawyers or yogis-and yet we could not be either unless we pleased.

It is with this thought that many believers would call up Kierkegaard's famous phrase, the 'leap of faith,' pictured perhaps as a leap from here to there, leaving out the in-between... What is usually overlooked, however, is that Kierkegaard said nothing about a safe landing; there was only the leap, and no guarantee of solid ground beyond it.

Do we fulfill our obligations by being practical all the time?

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

One fine day you've got to give your body to somebody, or turn into a fully-fledged zombie.

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

At the same time, I recognize that equally godly scholars who are equally committed to the inerrancy of the Bible come to different conclusions because of the complexity of the data.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

As for my writing. I like it enough to keep going. I dislike it enough to keep going

God wants to give you victory, but He can only do it if you show up for the battle.

Not only can filmmaking be expensive, but it's also extremely time consuming, and you can't buy time.

Wringing your hands only stops you from rolling up your sleeves.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

She would not fail this night. Nothing would stop her. Cassandra worked around to the far

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

If it's worth doing, I guess it's worth overdoing.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

You've gut to git up airlyEf you want to take in God.

No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu,An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.

We youths say "like" all the time because we mistrust reality. It takes a certain commitment to say something is. Inserting "like" gives you a bit more running room.

We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.

I drive. That's what I do. All I do.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.