Quotes About Commitment

we can speak of marriage as an adventure, but only because for disciples, marriage is now subsumed under the category of an aspect of our adventure in Christ. How on earth could we explain how ordinary people could risk commitment to another person for a lifetime, especially since we have no way of knowing all the implications that this commitment entails?

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain

We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

I will act as if what i do makes a difference.

The things that ask the most of us are the things most worth having.

In this period the Prime Minister had great confidence in the Fuehrer's word, remarking privately a day or two later, "In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word."46

But certain difficulties lay in his way if he were himself to lead the counterrevolution, and he was not much interested in it unless he was.

he was as good as his word, for he became a teetotaler, a nonsmoker and a vegetarian to boot

Let me on behalf of the leadership of TUC Rivers State; pledge to continue to stand by the workers and the ordinary people as well as on our original ideology as a mass movement.

Remember, I'll always be here for you, even if you can't see me. Because I love you.

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an artî

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.

Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

Relationships don't deepen naturally. In the absence of action, they will stall.

But they were devout Catholics, and they had tremendous faith in their marriage. She said that every night, after a tough day, they'd put their hands together in bed so that their rings touched, and they'd repeat their wedding vows to each other.

dogged focus

Establishing your core priorities is, unfortunately, not the same as binding yourself to them.

The simple act of committing to an answer makes the students more engaged and more curious about the outcome.

he has announced an even tougher commitment device: Now he'll take four months of vacation per year. This would appear to commit him to becoming French.

Couch to 5K había cambiado su vida. Él pretendía