Quotes About Commitment

Perhaps the most important decision you've ever made (that is, your marriage and the creation of your family) was based on your feelings.

Paul Goodman famously wrote, "Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!

I propitiated the knife-wielding deities with presents of books. The gifts to them and the head of nursing were also meant to acknowledge that although people get paid to do their jobs, you cannot pay someone to do their job passionately and wholeheartedly. Those qualities are not for sale; they are themselves gifts that can only be given freely, and are in many, many fields.

PomyÅ›lcie, jak wiele czasu i energii mogÅ'ybyÅ›my poÅ›wiÄ™ci? najró?niejszym wa?nym sprawom, gdybyÅ›my tylko nie byÅ'y a? tak zajÄ™te samym przetrwaniem.

Secondo me le basi della speranza sono, semplicemente: ignorare cosa succederà e sapere che l'improbabile e l'inimmaginabile accadranno con una certa regolarità. E che la storia non ufficiale nel mondo mostra come l'impegno degli individui e i movimenti popolari possano influenzarla e ottenere qualcosa, anche se non si può prevedere come e se ce la faremo, né quanto tempo ci vorrà.

Connor: [about Sidda and Connor's wedding] Vivi, it's taken years to nail down a date. She's always said, What's the rush, when things are so good? I don't know what the hell she's so afraid of - it's like she's always waiting for the bottom to drop out. Vivi: You know why she thinks that, don't ya, honey? Because it did. It always did.

So I committed this horrible offense of treating my husband as if what strangers saw counted, which destroys the whole purpose of marriage, which betrays the trust which is the real point of marriage.

Laziness will stop your progress in your spiritual practice.

THREE QUALITIES ENABLE people to understand the teachings: objectivity, which means an open mind; intelligence, which is the critical faculty to discern the real meaning by checking the teachings of Buddha; and interest and commitment, which means enthusiasm.

The key to the future for blacks is a commitment to America and its ideals of freedom, personal responsibility, the free enterprise system, and moral principles.

Let your yes be yes and your no be no.

Invest in the life you have to get the life you want

Still, agreeing to an adventure and getting involved with Lou were two entirely different things. He only hoped that she understood

Estamos en guerra. Mi táctica bélica puede resumirse en dos principios. Primero, yo sólo ataco cosas que triunfan, en ocasiones espero hasta que lo consiguen. Segundo, yo sólo ataco cuando no voy a encontrar aliados, cuando estoy solo, cuando me comprometo exclusivamente a mí mismo.

Once the command is learned, stop giving him the praise. The dog must learn to do the command for the sake of the work. Watch a good worker bring in the duck, you will see that the doing is the reward. Save the praise for in front of the fireplace, when the work is over.

Now Bigwig's put their backs up, and they'll think they've got to go on because he makes them. I want them to go on because they can see it's the only thing to do.

Personne n'abandonnera personne. Si tu restes, je reste avec toi.

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Keep working on love.

For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do...

You find what you love and you learn everything about it. You bet your life on what you know and run from safety, off your mountain into the air, trusting the Principle of Flight to bring you soaring up on lift you cannot see with your eyes.

An author is a writer who didn't give up.