Quotes About Commitment

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To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

But I can't go out with a guy who's written eleven and half pages in three years. That kind of thing is contagious.

Both Fen & Helen needed me to choose, to be their one & only when I didn't want a one & only. I loved that Amy Lowell poem when I first read it, how her lover was like red wine at the beginning and then became bread. But that has not happened to me. My loves remain wine to me, yet I become too quickly bread to them.

My parents were married twenty-three years and never made it look appealing.

Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means.

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.

If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming and crawling about from place to place can do no good.

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

Stand by your principles, stand by your guns, and victory, complete and permanent, is sure at the last.

You came into my life in a way that unmistakably told me to bring you home. But I think we chose each other. This was one of the best decisions I ever made.

I want you to remember this—you and I are in this life together. All the way. We don't run just because we get sacked a few times.

I took love before. It was not until I met you that I gave love.

They hung, like mirages, shimmering in the future, and the closer you got to them the more you expected them to disappear. When his mother had gone over to work in the States for the first time and his father was supposed to have been making a special effort, Mr. Schock had still managed to turn up at Sports Day after Peter's big race. There was always another meeting, another client, another urgent matter demanding his attention.

We're working on it." That's my standard answer in situations where I don't know squat. Tomasetti

Faithfulness is God's standard! As His servants we are not required to be perfect or successful — simply faithful.

Faith is not something to be reasoned from afar, but something we throw ourselves into — heart, mind, and soul.

It's one thing to say so in a prayer, but it's a whole other thing to match those prayers in obedience.

Marriage is a financial contract I have enough contracts already.

One way to get yourself started in spite of Resistance is to set a timer for ten minutes, and promise yourself that if you feel like stopping when the timer goes off, you can.

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day, unless you're too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

Two people have to love and respect each other to make a good team, at least in marriage. They have to be committed down to their cores in order to survive the ups and downs of life.

And I'll be around, Rose. I'll be there all the time. When you're working I'll ring you up from school and remind you to take your medication. I won't go away for weeks and months at a time. You'll know where I am and it will never be far away.