Quotes About Commitment

You'll always be with me?" "As long as you need me," she promised. "That'll be forever.

Even then I'd begun to think—and to push away the thought—that committing oneself to being fashionable was simultaneously committing oneself to being perishable.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

For my husband, who's been with me through all the good times and the bad. Life is a journey, an adventure. How wonderful to have a trusted companion.

What low-wage employers now seem to demand are workers whose lives have infinite give and 24-7 dedication, for little in return.

I learned that we must always pray, even and especially when we don't feel like it or when it feels compulsory and rote and dry.

I have to write. It's not an option. When I write, I am literally building myself a place in which to live. Once I'm firmly established within the narrative I pop awake in the morning and it's the first thing I think about. Not in an analytical way, as in "Oh, I haven't really reached the crisis point and it's already page 200—I'd better work on that." It's very much just running towards and into the place I most want to be.

Sure, I saw enlisted men everyday, but once they donned their uniforms and committed their lives, they became a mirage. The minute you approached them, you knew they would disappear bit by bit until the only thing left was a memory.

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. —Sivananda Saraswati

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. —Isak Dinesen writer

If you want a job, and you're not as good as the next guy, then work longer than the next guy. Work faster. Be there before him–because talented people show up late, and sometimes shit needs to get done. —Kevin Costner actor

Name?" He followed the procedure even though she'd

need you to go to Catasaga, Nick. Indefinitely.

Tell me what I'll be doing. Washing windows? Sweeping floors?" She cocked her head. "No, you'll be working with the kids as my aide." His whole face closed down. His hands fisted briefly. He reminded her of a picture in a Sunday school book she'd seen when she was little of a sinner condemned to hell. "No, I won't, Ms. McPherson. I will not, ever, be working with kids." "But that's all we have here for you to do.

I do want it. Very much. I love him." Camilla sighed into another smile. "I know. I believe he loves you too." Rose shook her head. "He has yet to say it." "Men always feel it long before they say it, my dear. They're a little slow that way.

It also occurred to him, like a well-aimed kick to the head, that the idea of watching Rose marry anyone was something he looked forward to about as much as he would castration. Possibly less.

Let's get our things afore either one of them changes their mind." Cass

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. - Al Batt

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between.

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. - Unknown

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. - Winston Churchill Whatever you do, do it well.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. - Flip Wilson

You boys ain't but two weeks off the farm. Your mama probably gave you your last bath. You think you went through one battle and you're soldiers now? I saw that boy fight for his cause. I saw him sicken and almost die for it. He sang around that fire when he had nothing left to sing. He sang for us. that boy gave everything and then he up and left and I say God bless him.