Quotes About Commitment

You die, I die too.

Spend some quality time with your dreams. They are real to the extent that you value them. To the extent that you commit to them and work for them, they will come true.

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

I tell you, therefore, as officers, that you will neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor smoke, nor even sit down until you have personally seen that your men have done those things. If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the end of the world.

If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the end of the world. And, if you do not, I will break you.

If you were to skip your time with God, would you be more concerned about missing the mark or missing God?

Let's not forget that our call as Christians is to make much of Jesus. The Great Commission calls us to make disciples of Jesus, not to recruit other people to a works-based lifestyle that makes us feel better (for a while) and makes them feel like constant failures. We are sharing the gospel, not hawking a product for commission. We must emphasize grace before we talk about commitment, because once grace becomes a believer's identity, commitment will follow.

When we say yes to too many other things, we are actually saying no to God. Only God can bring the rest and satisfaction our souls crave.

Mary sat at Jesus' feet because she viewed that time as an absolute necessity, not an item to be checked off her to-do list. You can meet with God on a regular and consistent basis and miss Him entirely in the process. In other words, you

Bridget scoffed. "And you can lay odds that a man who's driven in his life's pursuits - whatever they are - will be equally driven when it comes to you." Stilling suddenly, she looked up from her work. "You can lose yourself to a man like that.

The world needs you to show up and follow your dreams.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".

I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.

First, they believe that when trouble comes to our country there will be Marines—somewhere—who, through hard work, have made and kept themselves ready to do something useful about it, and do it at once.

Second, they believe that when the Marines go to war they invariably turn in a performance that is dramatically and decisively successful—not most of the time, but always.

Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

I must make notes even now, I must, no matter how dangerous it is. That is my professional courage.

The revolutionary is a dedicated man. He has no personal interests, no private affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property and no name. Everything in him is subordinated towards a single thought, a single passion: the Revolution.' Sergei Nechayev, The Revolutionary Catechism, 1869

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.

I say seduce her, seduce her tonight. Break the door down if you have to. Tell her all those things you said to me about her. You will love her more tomorrow than today and how you want to die with her hand in yours–which is an excellent line, by the way, that I fully intend to borrow when the time comes.

My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living without you in it.