Quotes About Commitment

Under the Re-Invention Paradigm, instead of your word fitting the world, you design your promise as a "world-to-word" fit. You have the world lined up, to fit the promise you have made.

Following that declaration, you would make whatever bold promises are suggested to you by the imperative of your declaration.

You are shifting from … … "what's possible" occurring as "what's predictable," bound by the limits of past experience … … to … … "what's possible" occurring as what you say is possible and what you commit to make happen, based on nothing.

Replace "predicting the future" (by analyzing what's possible, benchmarking, setting objectives or goals, or making feasible promises) with "declaring the future" and making bold promises to fulfill it.

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

In any case, when a woman doesn't want to breastfeed, we need to support her and we need to stop heaping on the guilt. We also have to stop using the word commitment only in connection with breastfeeding. Any kind of feeding regimen takes commitment.

Educar bien exige paciencia, porque es un camino duro, difícil y aparentemente interminable; un proyecto que requiere una perspectiva a largo plazo.

Is this love the trouble you promised?

Margaret Mead once said, 'Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.' He paused. 'Indeed, they are the only ones who ever have.

BARBARA: You're never coming back to me, are you, Bill? BILL: Never say never, but . . . BARBARA: But no. BILL: But no.

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

Divorce confuses the church today because marriage confuses. And marriage confuses the church today because love confuses.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

It's not going to be over," Kate said firmly, "until we say so.

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Some people my accuse me of doing too much. Sometimes I agree with them. But then there is a part of me that wants to follow God --- wholeheartedly, completely and full throttle, wherever He may lead. I don't want to look back fifty years from now and think, What if I had trusted God? Where would I be?

Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.

I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.

Motivation will move you towards the top, consistency will take you to the top, but discipline is the key to keeping you there.

To achieve growth, you have to be willing to sacrifice the time and make the difficult but necessary changes. There can be no change without risks, and there can be no growth without changes. Take the leap today, the journey starts with you.

Open marriage thus can be defined as a relationship in which the partners are committed to their own and to each other's growth. It is an honest and open relationship of intimacy and self-disclosure based on the equal freedom and identity of both partners.

I}t is more common that people are monogamous not by choice, but by default.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.