Quotes About Commitment

I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.

Life always gets harder toward the summit—the cold increases, responsibility increases.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

if the potential employees made the mistake of talking about wanting a harmonious balance between work and home life, Bezos rejected them.

You can work long, hard, and smart, but at Amazon.com you can pick only two out of three.

You can work long, you can work hard, you can work smart, but at Amazon you can't choose two out of three.

Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'

You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.

Do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

You become a monk because you think there's no better choice for you. No other reason could make any sense.

When you're so committed to the future, it's real easy to let your life right now turn to shit.

If the mind of a practitioner often tires and quits, that is like twirling a stick to start a fire and resting before it gets hot.

Once we meet a good teacher we should throw away everything else and just get on with it.

Unless you completely devote yourself to one practice, you'll never really master it.

You do not become a Buddha by having some magical, mystical experience that confers Buddhahood on you, after which you can just slack off for the rest of your life. Buddhahood is something fragile and precious that must be cared for and maintained. It's not automatic, and it's not easy.

People who love books never have spare time!

Like well-adjusted children, dogs require significant training and supervision. They must be fed, watered, and exercised every single day. They need love, lots and lots of love, and they need to know you are there for them. In other words, caring for a dog is not a hobby or a part-time responsibility – it's a real relationship. This is somewhat true of cats, as well. The relationship maybe weirdly one-sided and kind of embarrassing, but you still have to turn up.

Caring for a dog, on the other hand, requires a great deal more effort. It's not nearly as challenging as raising a child, but it's a whole lot harder than making pizza from scratch. The rewards are far greater, but so is the mess.

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.