Quotes About Commitment

21 palavras de Thomas Carlyle que o ajudaram a levar uma vida livre de preocupações: "Nossa principal função não é enxergar o que jaz vagamente a distância, e sim fazer o que está claramente à mão.

Not at all. But he did go on in that address to say that the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today.

When you have said "No," all your pride of personality demands that you remain consistent with yourself. You may later feel that the "No" was ill-advised; nevertheless, there is your precious pride to consider! Once having said a thing, you feel you must stick to it.

When the old-time lover proposed to his sweetheart, did he just use words of love? No! He went down on his knees. That really showed he meant what he said. We don't propose on our knees any more, but many suitors still set up a romantic atmosphere before they pop the question

To show you I'm sure that you'll never do this again, I want you to service my F-51 tomorrow.

debo perderme en la acción, si no quiero marchitarme en la desesperación".

for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today.

but I felt accountable and compelled to help in some way.

He meant—once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts.

best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today.

There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.

It takes the relationship to another level

But for women, the conflict between sex role and artistic commitment goes much deeper: The successful woman is-almost by definition-the one who sacrifices her self, her creativity and intellectuality, who puts them into personal (read male) and not professional (read competition) commitments.

we fail to be disciples only because we do not decide to be. We do not intend to be disciples. It is the power of the decision and the intention over our life that is missing. We should apprentice ourselves to Jesus in a solemn moment, and we should let those around us know that we have done so.

In relation to spiritual disciplines, the most helpful distinction is the difference between trying to do something and training to do something.

La idea de que puedes confiar en Cristo sin decidir obedecerle es una ilusión generada por el predominio de una «cultura cristiana» descreída. De hecho, no puedes confiar en Jesús sin determinar obedecerle más de lo que podrías confiar en tu médico y en el mecánico de tu coche sin determinar seguir su consejo.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

How to combine faith with obedience is surely the essential task of the church as it enters the twenty-first century.

The general human failing is to want what is right and important, but at the same time not to commit to the kind of life that will produce the action we know to be right and the condition we want to enjoy. This is the feature of human character that explains why the road to hell is paved with good intentions. We intend what is right, but we avoid the life that would make it reality.

The sad truth is that people can be just as arrogant from belief, commitment, various associations, or simple egotism as from claimed knowledge.

Commitment is not sustained by confusion but by insight. The person who is uninformed or confused will inevitably be unstable and vulnerable in action, thought and feeling.

If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all…. One reason why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

Put his words into practice and find them to be true.

Preliminary 3: Deciding to Do It