Quotes About Commitment

My work and my family are very important to me.

Heed the call. Take the leap. But do not go off half-cocked. Plan it out. Take that full day. Take more than one. Take as many as necessary to develop your plan. But do it, and then, execute it. You won't be sorry. You will be on your path to bliss.

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.

Costly discipleship is held captive to Christ; it is Christ-centered.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

They say men fall three times. First is calf love. Second is the one you marry. John And third? Jane Third. . . Third is your deathbed bride

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Howard Taylor wrote of his father, "For forty years the sun never rose on China a single day that God didn't find him on his knees.

Cada vez que el hombre decide amar verdaderamente a Dios y a su prójimo, significa salir de su zona de comodidad a un lugar donde tiene que ensuciarse las manos

George Müller once said, "I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up.

Sadly the majority of kids today are forsaking their church and faith after they graduate from high school. This is primarily the result of poor fathering. When dads lead spiritually, studies suggest that kids are up to twenty times more likely to stay in church long-term than when moms are the spiritual leaders at home.7

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Fidelity in a sad marriage can fairly be described as an act of faith.

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

What God is like to Him I serve? What Saviour like to mine? O never let me from Thee swerve, For truly I am Thine.

I in obedience to Thy will Thou knowest did submit. It was my duty so to do; O Lord, accept of it.

The trust we have in people and in organizations comes, in part, from believing that they do care.

Being a man is a privilege, not an entitlement. It is a surrender of our priority. It is a laying down of our lives, not physically but inwardly—our preferences, our pleasures, sometimes even our dreams. Our version of Witold Pilecki's medals comes in the lives we offer to God, lives we have bled and sweated and prayed and given ourselves for. This is what it means to be a man.

If everything is mission, nothing is mission.

Virginia had taken the decisive step—this large and influential state ratified the Constitution but was committed to use her great influence to demand a bill of rights. The remaining states, both large (New York and North Carolina) and small (Rhode Island and the future state of Vermont), would ratify the Constitution and follow Virginia in insisting that individual rights be declared.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling.