Quotes About Commitment

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Time is the bastard offspring of an incestuous act that God committed upon reality." Merlin to Arthur in "Arthur Rex

What it means is you will fight until you're all used up. Far from being sour, life is so sweet you will live it to the hilt and be consumed by it.

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

We trust as we love, and we trust where we love; if you love Christ much surely you will trust Him much.

Yet to decide that this One exists is not quite like deciding that anything else exists. For this decision assumes a wider implication that the decider shall order his or her life around the existence of this One, if this One exists at all. It is not merely a casual or theoretical decision that makes no necessary difference to the way one lives the rest of one's life

Into your hands, 0 Lord, we commit ourselves this day. Give to each one of us a watchful, a humble, and a diligent spirit that we may seek in all things to know your will, and when we know it may perform it perfectly and gladly, to the honor and glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Gelasian Sacramentary

To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

The Everlasting Yea.

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Oxford philosopher John Austin pointed out that saying, "I promise," is a whole different linguistic deal

Punctuality is the soul of business.

The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.