Quotes About Commitment

Exactly. There's nothing wrong with him. But he doesn't have like, any wow or thrill factor. You are choosing a husband. Not taking an amusement park ride for thrills.

But I had to work, so I could not go to the wedding. It doesn't matter, all marriages are the same, more or less.

But it will work, man. If you put your heart into it, it will.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second, or third bottle of Tabasco.

...if a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him...

There's no crying in tattooing.

Individual commitment to a group effort, gentlemen, that's what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

If 80 percent of success is showing up, then 20 percent is following up.

Make sure you are seeing projects 100 percent of the way through, not just 95 percent... The last 5 percent of Train Your Brain for Success is about that last 5 percent in your life.

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you — but trusting them not to.

Writing isn't hard; no harder than ditch-digging.

They'll find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.

One ought to write only when one leaves a piece of one's flesh in the inkpot each time one dips one's pen.

I need hardly remind you... that graduation is not the end of your study. It is, as you know, only the beginning of it. You have learned how to study, now it is most important that you continue in this most valuable work...

You can find inspiration from others but determination is solely your responsibility.

Amateurs work until they get it right. Professionals work until they can't get it wrong.

When developing and designing products that invite people to use them, just do it right from the start and put your heart into it. It's harder and it takes longer, but everyone wins in the end.

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy — then you should sit for an hour.

Life is never so busy that there is no time to serve.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. No one is large enough to be split up into many parts; and the sooner a man can stamp this truth upon his mind, the better his chances for being a profitable member of society.