Quotes About Commitment

Start as you mean to go on.

By signing up for the project you agreed to do whatever was necessary for success.

When others write about people who live on the edge, who challenge their comfortable lives—and it has happened to me—they usually do it in a way that allows a reader a way out. You could render generosity into pathology, commitment into obsession. That's all in the repertory of someone who wants to put the reader at ease rather than conveying the truth in a compelling manner.

But he realized that Haiti was now so embedded in his mind and heart that he could never abandon the country so quickly.

Change the world? Of course they could. He really believed this, and he really believed that "a small group of committed individuals" could do it. He liked to say of PIH, "People think we're unrealistic. They don't know we're crazy.

Real results come from putting your momentary needs on hold to pursue larger, more important goals. The realization of such goals is often delayed, meaning that your commitment to self-management will be tested over and over again. Those who manage themselves the best are able to see things through without cracking. Success comes to those who can put their needs on hold and continually manage their tendencies.

Much of self-management comes down to motivation, and you can use the expectations that other people have of you as a powerful force to get you up off the proverbial couch.

Part of me doesn't even know if we're together. I mean, we are-she likes me, and I want to run off to Mexico with her. So yeah, that's together, right? I guess I don't need a ring or anything.

It's very easy to be distracted by all the good feelings that come with having sex with someone for the first time, or getting to know a new sexual partner. You can get caught up in the giddy feelings, become focused on the outside sex and the outside partners, and take your primary relationship for granted.

There has to be a kind of gravitational pull toward each other. If all of your focus is on yourselves, you're just going to fly off in different directions, and there's not going to be a relationship. I think a commitment to kindness can be the gravity that keeps you in orbit.

Han did not even hesitate. He simply took one glance at their children, got a hard look in his eye, then set his jaw and turned to Leia. "What do you think, partner? Want to wander around the galaxy together?" "Sure." Leia pulled him onto the bed and twined her fingers into his. "But I'm navigating.

They won't catch you," he told her. "And even if they do, I'll get you back. I promise you that.

Risk. Only when you know the other could easily leave you, do you appreciate when he stays. Only when it's not easier on them to like you than not, do you appreciate it when they do." - Achati

Sonea era más cínica. Había observado que las mujeres solían pasar por alto cuando estaban enamoradas porque, en algún momento, el amor tendía a desvanecerse. Era mejor casarse con un hombre que te gustara y en quien confiaras

It would seem they have need of you. Why don't you

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.

Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall

A man who is not willing to work from dewy morn until weary eve should not think about becoming a pitcher.

I really felt that, belonging to a foot regiment, it was my duty to march with the men.

I could have allowed myself more time. I have used my best efforts, with the aid of my eldest son, F. D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given.

In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten years or more, the man of letters (restored to his loftiest dignity) can happily write out of pure love of writing.

En mi época, quienes sabían alemán ya no se licenciaban. Se pasaban el resto de su vida sabiendo alemán. Creo que hoy en día sucede lo mismo con el chino. —Yo lo conozco poco, por eso hago mi tesis.

Bir kez daha birinin, 'Ne yap?yorsun, niçin ölüyorsun?' diye ba??rd???n? iÅŸittim. 'Ä°çimdeki bir gerçek için; onu ancak ölümle kan?tlayabilirim,' diye yan?tlad?.

Libertà e liberazione sono un compito che non finisce mai.