Quotes About Commitment

4You prepare your mind for it only to the extent of recognizing that you want it above all else. 5It is not necessary that you do more; indeed, it is necessary that you realize that you cannot do more.

I shall be obliged if you will send Nora and the girls to church every Sunday for the next month to pray for the continued health and strength of the messrs. gilliam, reese, snider, campanella, robinson, hodges, furillo, podres, necombe and labine, collectively known as the The Brooklyn Dodgers. If they lose this World Series I shall Do Myself In and then where will you be?

Lessons in Leadership: My Rules to Live By© • Be true to yourself • Do the right thing • Remember that actions speak louder than words • Put first things first • Just do it

Breaking your stretch goal into a series of smaller, doable actions may help. What steps will you need to take to get to your goal? If your goal is a promotion, how can you get more visibility with power players? Which project can you put your hand up for that will showcase your skills and commitment? What else can you do to show that you are ready to advance? How can you attract a sponsor?

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

There is no magic in small plans. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ nor of His will for my life.

I have another duty equally sacred… My duty to myself.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: they sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

When I find myself drawn away from my priesthood duties by other interests and when my body begs for rest, I give to myself this rallying cry: "Remember Him.

What all disciplines have in common is a search for rules and a commitment to them. And what all great learners have is a deep appreciation for finding better rules and a commitment to keeping them. That is why great learners are careful about what commitments they make and then keeping them.

With your call comes the promise that answers will come. But that guidance will come only when the Lord is sure you will obey. To know His will you must be committed to do it. The words "Thy will be done," written in the heart, are the window to revelation.

God will honor your baptism if you will. God will honor your temple covenants if you will. And if you will, I know as surely as if I had seen it that you will have full salvation, which is eternal life.

Some spiritual leaders try to be more committed. What they need is to be more submitted.

You cannot stay the way you are and go with God.

This is the army! Nobody can do the best they can.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.