Quotes About Commitment

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

You have a responsibility to someone who loves you.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

A Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to a person who isn't.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

Life Lessons 6:12 — Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. Jesus spent all night in prayer immediately before He chose the twelve disciples who would accompany Him everywhere. Whenever we make any decision—major or minor—we should follow His example and wholeheartedly seek His counsel.

First priority becomes first action.

Own your work and compound credibility.

The only meaningful life is that which is deepened by carrying through these commitments, living through the dead periods in order to lay the foundations for the creative ones.

Man goes to great lengths to avoid his own responsibility.

The greatest thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years. C.S.LEWIS

What they fail to reckon with, however, is the reverse of that slogan: if nothing is worth dying for, is anything worth living for?

Only a life lived in service to the truth can be a good life.

Two percent who care deeply about something are a more potent political force than the 98 percent who feel the opposite but aren't motivated enough to do anything about it.

opportunism" into "fervent zeal.

But really, it's probably just easiest to keep doing what I'm doing. You know how it goes. At first it's just for the time being, until you can get your own story together, be the hero in something of your own. You tell people it's your day job, you tell yourself it's your day job, and then, at some point, without you noticing, it stops being your day job and just becomes your job.

KUNG FU KID I'm sorry, Ma. I'm really sorry. MA (waving you off) I don't care about that. Just promise me something, okay? KUNG FU KID Okay. MA Don't grow up to be Kung Fu Guy. KUNG FU KID Okay, okay, I promise. (then) Wait, what? MA You heard me. Don't be Kung Fu Guy. KUNG FU KID Oh. Then what should I be? MA Be more.

Long after you'd graduated into an adult role, you still continued coming to him for these weekly lessons, but the lessons had turned into a flimsy pretense layered atop their real purpose: your delivery of provisions on which your old man depended. A few groceries, toilet paper, his various prescriptions. Putting things out so they'd be easy for him to access, wiping the floor as best you could.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

make a simple plan, inform everyone involved with it, don't change it, and kick it in the ass.