Quotes About Commitment

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Lord, help me to begin to begin

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

A life is only a link in the chain. I want other people to continue the experience begun by those before me and dedicate themselves like me and the others before me to this--to go to the furthest reaches of the possible.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

There's something inherently wrong in a relationship where the woman acts like a wife and the man acts like a boyfriend.

Let's stick together." "Well, you're going to have to wait here for me there: I'm going to the bathroom." "But how long are you going to be?" "Oh, three hours?" "Rocky . . .

My dad's supportive of all my endeavors.

The days you work are the best days.

I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.

If your plan is not in writing, you do not have a plan at all. Instead, you have only a dream, a vision, or perhaps even a nightmare. The simple written plan works best.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

To say that you will exert your best efforts is little more than to say you will try. But you must begin to understand that — for you, forward of this moment — you do not have the luxury of merely trying at anything you undertake, and failure is not an option." "But

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

literature and opera are full of characters who die for love: i stay alive for her. - Excerpt from "No Longer A Teenager

Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?" "I don't know. I've never done either.

No one would speak, so Terence took a deep breath, let it out slowly, and said, "My liege?" "Yes, Terence?" "Twenty years ago I decided I would die for you. I may not be able to do that tomorrow, but if I can't, I can at least die beside you.

Answer me this: is it worse to end a stupid task falsely or to continue a stupid task honestly?

Pa, I can't ask her to marry me until I have a way to care for her.

Press forward with all diligence so that you may claim the promises of the Lord.

Los matrimonios no se disuelven porque alguno de los cónyuges deje de decir "Te quiero", sino porque los miembros de la pareja dejan de tratarse con amor.