Quotes About Commitment

Science is all very well when a man can afford to make it his hobby, but I have come to the conclusion that a man has no right to ride a hobby while his family have to work to make a living." "But

If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

Only super-efforts count.

All who have come to me must have enema each day.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

In our commitment to raise healthy, conscious children and create a healthy world, it is hard to understand how people can choose to spend money for something that not only does not work, but poisons humans and the environment.

The whole crowd interrupted and told him, 'No, we won't let you go. You have worked hard for our rights and you can't quit now.' 'Then,' said Riel, 'if I must, I will desert.' 'If you desert, we will desert with you.

I can see that you have made your decision, but I wonder if you will become tired and discouraged. Me—I will never give up.

Donde haya un árbol que plantar, plántalo tú. Donde haya un error que enmendar, enmiéndalo tú. Donde haya un esfuerzo que todos esquivan, hazlo tú. Sé tú el que aparta la piedra del camino.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

Why do you keep coming?" she asked. "Because," he said. Click on this word , he thought, and you will find links to everything it means. Because you are my oldest friend. Because, once, when I was at my lowest, you saved me. Because I might have died without you or ended up in a children's psychiatric hospital. Because I owe you. Because, selfishly, I see a future where we make fantastic games together, if you can manage to get out of bed . "Because," he repeated.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

In my humble opinion, love is when a person believes that he, she or it can't live without some other he, she or it...I said believes. No one actually needs another person or another person's live to survive. Love, Lizzie, is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

Showing up is what counts.

I told him I didn't want to have sex until I got married. Without missing a beat, he nodded and said, "So let's get married.

They say success kills relationships, but the lack of it will do it just as quickly.

My grandmother was married for fifty-two years, until my grandfather died. She used to say that a bad marriage was one that hadn't had enough time to get good again.

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?

He was no longer the boy who wanted to taste everything at the buffet, and he considered it a sign of his own maturity that he had not thought to end things with Zoe. But his disdain for his former itinerancy had made it so he could not recognize the reasons a person should stay.

I'm going to play until the end of this life.

So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I will focus on the long game. As they say in baseball, losing game one and even game two is no reason to give up on the whole series. When you're ready, if you're ever ready, give me the word.