Quotes About Commitment

If you really want things to change, you have to get involved. Little strokes fell big oaks, you know.

Repetition. Effort. Pain. Success. There really is no shortcut.

am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.

learned what sweating bullets means.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

But thinking of Mattie's marriage, I saw too how a marriage, in bringing two people into each other's presence, must include loneliness and error. I imagined a moment when the husband and wife realize that their marriage includes their faults, that they do not perfect each other, and that in making their marriage they also fail it and must carry to the grave things they cannot give away.

A Bible falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.

Gus Lee, who later wrote Honor and Duty

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.

Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

In our recovery we learn that love is not simply a feeling. Rather it is an energy that is manifested by a commitment and a will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's total growth, which includes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual dimensions (Peck 1978).

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.

It's hard to tell everybody to go home if nobody shows up.

When the excitement of these days passes away, and when some of the visions begin to grow a little dim; when it becomes impossible to put into words the prayer you want to speak, then we must be able to lift our heads up, and say with all faith as Peter did, 'Lord, you know that I love you.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

Love is a choice. It's a decision.' She told us, 'It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it'll sneak around until It finds another heart and breaks through.

You rescued me when I thought nobody would. When I thought I wasn't worth the effort. You gave me everything and asked for nothing.' She pressed her face to mine. 'If this is love on the other side of the rescue, then I want to live it. With you. But,' She shook her head. 'But if you give you to me, then'- she placed her palm flat across my chest -'come heavy