Quotes About Commitment

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

There will always be a just fight and a cause to die for.

Against a blue sky the tangelo rose swiftly, first opposing gravity, then submitting, caught in the velocity like a ripe comet streaking towards the bonds of matrimony. In its arc flew the virtues of commitment and loyalty and passion, followed by the afterburners of summer — amorous and ablaze. Faster the tangelo descended, an orange blur; poetic, expensive, at once brunette and blonde, rotating so fast that its skin appeared tan, then pale, then something luminous, the color of love.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

A life's work should be based on love.

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

I had to twist Harold Freund's arm repeatedly to get him to build a bakery just to service our California stores. Freund now has the largest, most automated bun plant in the world. It produces eight thousand buns an hour for McDonald's. It also has a plant in St. Petersburg serving all of Florida, and another serving all of Hawaii. Fred

It'll be a lot of trouble," Dick McDonald objected. "Who could we get to open them for us?" I sat there feeling a sense of certitude begin to envelope me. Then I leaned forward and said, "Well, what about me?

If you believe in something, you've got to be in it to the ends of your toes. Taking reasonable risks in part of the challenge, It's the fun.

I worked at something whenever possible. Work is the meat in the hamburger of life. There is an old saying that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I never believed it because, for me, work was play. I got as much pleasure out of it as I did from playing baseball. Baseball

She dutifully attended McDonald's gatherings in later years, and she was liked by operators' wives and by women on the staff, but there was nothing more between us. Our thirty-five years of holy matrimony endured another five in unholy acrimony. I

Work is the meat in the hamburger of life. There is an old saying that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I never believed it because, for me, work was play. I got as much pleasure out of it as I did from playing baseball.

No conseguir cumplir una tarea, la que fuera, me hacía sentir en deuda con el mundo entero y sobre todo con lo poco o mucho que yo fuera.

Shouldering responsibility When

To do the job which you've got really well; so well that you don't lose your self-respect doing it':

Human marriage has always been intended by God to serve as a prophetic whisper of the eternal marriage. Every real marriage in the world today manages that statement to some degree, however weakly, because that is what marriage is. Very few realities in our lives bear such a sacred meaning and deserve such special consideration.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don't have to know everything about it; you just do it.

Authentic Christianity is not increasing levels of commitment grudgingly given to God; it is surrender to Jesus out of a sense of privilege in having him.

When a husband does not appreciate how sweetly his wife keeps looking for ways to make things work, God does see, and he does appreciate her. She is always very precious to him.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

No matter what we want of life — we have to give up something in order to get it.