Quotes About Commitment

If you want to experience the ultimate thrill, you have to be willing to pay the ultimate price."   —Big wave rider, Mark Foo

It's not about you, it's about the idea you're passionate about. Your job is to be there in service of that idea, to offer it as a gift.

For proof, I present Tom Amberry, a retired podiatrist who lives in Southern California. In 1993, at the age of 71, Amberry set a Guinness World Record by sinking 2,750 consecutive free throws. That is not a typo

Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

Once you stumble across a fantastic, once-in-a-lifetime idea for a book, it's hard to treat that story with the irreverent disregard needed to transform it from a great idea into a workable rough draft. When you give yourself just one month to flesh out your concept, you won't have time to feel overly protective of your ideas. And you will therefore stand a much better chance of bringing them to life.

Harry's Seventh Rule: Connect and commit.

So how do we keep ourselves from decaying? By changing the signals we send to our bodies. The keys to overriding the decay code are daily exercise, emotional commitment, reasonable nutrition, and a real engagement with living. But it starts with exercise.

You're a grown-up, right? Then don't be a dope. The gadgets, or the weights, do not do the work. You do. Okay, go to a decent gym and hire the nicest, smartest man or woman you can find.

The price of fitness is eternal vigilance, and the greatest spur to diligence is the daily log.

It was Pidge's observation that toleration rather than love was what kept her parents together. They were yoked like horses to a plow and they moved through life pulling something neither could see that kept them a safe distances from each other. There was something both admirable and sad in their marital work ethic, and Pidge promised herself she wouldn't settle like they had. It was a promise she broke.

Value clients enough to make them the central focus. Never make your clients feel like there is anyone on the planet more important than them. They are your priority. Every. Time.

Some people are given a great gift of not caring what others think or about anything but being faithful to what they're called by God to do.

I accept you and love you and always will.

The woman of my dreams. The woman of my nightmares. Everything good and bad about my life. The "I do" that "I didn't.

your identity will be tied to whatever you give your heart to. Doesn't sound like the Lord has first place.

Love is a commitment. Love is not just saying something, but doing something about what you say. Anybody can say the word, but few actually say it and live it.

One choice changes the construction of a life. You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.

Whether we're up 2-0 early in the second half, or we're up 1-0 with 10 minutes left in the game, my mind-set is the same when I come in the game. It's to help keep that lead, whatever way I can.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

It doesn't matter what you do for 45 minutes, it's what you do the last three minutes.

It is a miracle that I can see at all and continue serving the American people.

A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.

Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.