Quotes About Commitment

I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love.

Before reading this book, I did not understand that my power and my commitment to fighting oppression lay in finding those places where my experiences of privilege and oppression seem to be at odds with one another. Lorde's work and life taught me that I must not be afraid to go to those complex and "messy" places to understand myself, the history of my people, and to learn how to use my identities in a clear and subversive way.

My God, we ate, slept and dreamed our pictures.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. It's just so easy to give up!

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.

Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's what we should be doing on Mars. When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.

As time goes by, I'm increasingly impressed by how very special and timely it was that we got the degree of national commitment needed to put people on the Moon. For the first time, this nation was united in trying to develop an interplanetary capability. We've been trying to repeat that situation ever since.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

If you love me as I love you, No knife can cut our loves in two.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dresses ready.

If you haven't found out already, you will surely learn someday that the honor of getting on a prestigious board includes the duty to give service on a committee —

But we made a pact that night to try. To stay true to ourselves and each other. It's what you have to do when you're a girl. Stick together. Remember what you love. And stay true.

Servant leadership is passionate service to the mission and to those who join the leader on that mission.

No matter what has happened. No matter what you've done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it.

You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.