Quotes About Commitment

If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.

My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.

There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.

Every step of the way, I made it a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that's the only way to ensure security in any job.

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

Noam and I had first met in the summer of 1965, on a plane ride to Mississippi with a delegation to protest the jailing of civil rights workers there. The antiwar movement brought us closer together, and Noam and his wife Carol, Roz, and I became friends. Of all the movement people I knew, there was no one person who combined such extraordinary intellectual power with such commitment to social justice.

Then Gregory lowered his voice, suddenly serious. "But it looks like we got to do it the hard way, and stay down here, and educate them.

Marriage, family, and debt; in a sense, another kind of slavery.

S)ome people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.

I wanna make you feel wanted And I wanna call you mine Wanna hold your hand forever Never let you forget it Yeah, I wanna make you feel wanted

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.

about to quit." "Why?" He laughed. "Everybody quits—you'll quit. Nobody worth a shit can work here.

Once I broke him out of jail, as it were, I would be responsible for him until my lawyers took over.

There are worse kinds of infidelity than the sexual. I was living with one of the most interesting women in the world, and too often my attention was elsewhere.

After all our time living together, my identity is not self-contained: I am the way I am because she is the way she is. This "marriage of true minds" Shakespeare spoke of does not occur at the wedding nuptials but after sixty-five years of wedlock we may be getting there.

The words 'believe' and 'repent' are now largely replaced by other terms such as Give your life to Christ', 'Open your heart to Christ', 'Do it now', 'Surrender completely', 'Decide for Christ', etc., and in similar language those who profess conversion are sometimes represented as having 'given in'.

Why not make it for always?

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

I like doing everything fully, getting the most out of everything one does. I think that's the way to live.

ALTHOUGH HE had not got to bed until two, Bond walked into his headquarters punctually at ten the next morning.

Darling, the bath's absolutely right. Will you marry me?' She snorted. 'You need a slave, not a wife.

That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.