Quotes About Commitment

After about a year, though, he concluded that the amount of time he was spending practicing the accordion was impinging on his chess studies. "I did fairly well on it for a while," Bobby said, looking back, "but chess had more attraction and the accordion was pushed aside.

In boxing, you have to be disciplined. You have to train hard, eat well, and get plenty of rest. If you don't do those things, you won't be successful.

I still believe in marriage.

Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

To serve the Lord requires personal sacrifices. If one is not willing to pay the price he should never commit himself.

Worth dying for. Worth killing for. Worth going to hell for.Amen.

But the couple faced the room, Trina throwing back her veil. She—perhaps McTeague as well—felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony. Was that all there was to it? Did just those few muttered phrases make them man and wife? It had been over in a few moments, but it had bound them for life. Had not something been left out? Was not the whole affair cursory, superficial? It was disappointing.

But our prayers needed to be long so that we might not hide our lamp under a bushel, so that we wouldn't get to heaven and find that we had been ashamed of the Lord and that because of this He would say we had denied Him before men so He would deny us before the Father.

church may be a son-of-a-bitch, but it's my son-of-a-bitch!

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.

Work is the only reason I leave home. I`m not a tourist. I don`t travel for pleasure. I don`t take vacations. I only leave the house when I have something to do.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

If we will not prepare to give all that we have and that all that we are to preserve Christian civilization in our land, we shall go to destruction.

The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, an intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it.

A toast at your wedding, perhaps?" said Eldric. "I shall never get married," I said. "But I do like champagne.

A person might get angry when the girl he loves says she'll never marry.