Quotes About Commitment

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least.

We human beings are paradoxes. We love the fruits of commitment, love, and order. Yet a dark side of us is often anticommitment, antilove, and antiorder. We would prefer to receive these things; we have to be taught and we have to deliberately choose to give these things. This is a fundamental testimony to the evil within.

They believed that an organization is only as good as its commitment to training leaders for the future.

Yeah. Here's a second thing to look for. I think you want to look for a pattern of faithfulness and dependability.

As God sacrificed His Son, so we follow and give even those things that are most precious to us in our personal worlds: our time, our convenience, our creature comforts.

It is a delicate balance, resisting the hypnotic spell of an organization's culture and, at the same time, remaining committed from the heart to the personally relevant goals of the organization.

I pronounce us man and something-or-other. We're married, big boy.

Down on my knees again. Worship isn't enough." Peter leaned forward and rubbed his forehead against Charlie's. "I'm going to like this," he murmured. "Daily services. Hourly services.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

The best cure for boredom is hard work.

I'd stop drinking coffee, but I'm no quitter.

You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut.

Laziness is not a handicap — park somewhere else!

Put in 5% more effort than "there's only so much I can do" and you'll be way ahead of the game.

Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep...

Don't make excuses — make good!

Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for.

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.