Quotes About Commitment

Follow-through is the cornerstone of execution, and every leader who's good at executing follows through religiously. Following through ensures that people are doing the things they committed to do, according to the agreed timetable.

Men leave women for other women. Women leave men for another way of life.

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

If you want to write, you've got to shut yourself up in a room and write.

Robert Greenleaf: If caring is needed to protect an institution, what are the requirements necessary to make it work? First, the sense of purpose and objective. Second, the talent to manage the process for reaching new objectives. Finally, and let me surprise you by emphasizing this third need, we need people who care about the institution. A deep sense of caring for the institution is required for its success.

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

Lepine nos recuerda: "Un esposo que ama a su esposa como Cristo ama la iglesia va a comenzar a entender que su amor es una decisión, a pesar de (no a razón de) las acciones, actitudes o apariencia de su esposa. Una vez él le ha pedido que sea su esposa, un esposo hace el juramento de amor incondicional hacia ella, para bien o para mal".

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Wayward Brahmin: 'I can buy all the ginger and pepper you can grow.' Spice Islander: 'Marry my daughter!' The young bride melts into his arms. Wayward baron: 'But isn't it forbidden to marry outside caste, my guru?' 'Unless gig is very, very good, my disciple.' A century or so later: 'You grow all the ginger and pepper we can buy!

Professional writers don't have muses; they have mortgages.

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

twould appear that if Fred Lemish spent half as much time writing as he did hoping Dinky Adams would say "I love you," he'd have a ten-foot shelf. And if Dinky Adams spent half as much time legitimately planting and fertilizing as he did scattering his seeds to the winds, he'd be New York's leading gardener. Though, of course, as we shall continue to see, he already is.

How about if we say we're going to become a cross between the League of Women Voters and the United States Marines?

Hey, Dinky …, sooner or later you're going to have to make a commitment to someone. Which means making a commitment to yourself. And a commitment to the notion that our shitty beginnings don't have to cripple us for life.

Face the facts. If you do not begin to pray, you will not be any further along with the Lord next year than you are right now.

The biggest thing you have to be in life is willing

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

Winning or losing is not the right scorecard. Obedience is. When we do the right thing, we're being faithful. Even if we get the wrong results.

Instead of celebrating how many people came, the most important measurement would be how many came back.

We overtrained.

For most of us, beliefs are intellectual. Acting upon them is optional.

I'm often asked how in the world we can develop life-changing sticky relationships in just ten weeks. Fact is, we can't. But by stringing together enough ten-week sessions, we end up with something much deeper than we'd ever get with a mere six-month or one-year commitment—and very little weaseling.