Quotes About Commitment

I beg your pardon, my lord; promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

Promise little and do much.

It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

There is no short cut. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

I am constant to my purposes...

Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't... Be a soldier to thy purpose.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

Never give up on someone you can't go a day without thinking about.

There are ten church members by inheritance for every one by conviction.

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does one's self.

Be thoroughly assured of the constancy of your disposition, and the solidity of your motives, before you totally engage in retirement.

Safety isn't just a slogan, it's a way of life.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.

I'm addicted to this exercise — I never skip a day!

You know you're a skydiver when you'll wake up at 6:30 am on the weekends to get to the drop zone, but you can't seem to get up by 7:30 on the weekdays to be at work by 8:00.

Marriage is an institution for the paralysis of the sexual instinct.

I will take you and keep you and give you light and dark wine and perhaps children. In spring, after we have planted, I will sit and watch the warm rains with you on the covered porch. In summer and in fall I will walk with you in the gardens. And when the snows of winter come, I will wrap us both in a quilt of starry darkness.

Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

Thanks for the warning, but you see, I'm working for God and I can't quit till He says so. If I'm worth anything to Him He'll take care of me.

People do not reform after they are married. I would never marry a man to reform him!

the love of one true man is worth a life's devotion