Quotes About Commitment

How many men have asked you to marry them?' 'Not a lot. Most had too strong an instinct for self-preservation.

Matt knew only that he must see her again, and forever.

What she was retreating from was any profundity of feeling and therefore any commitment more intense than light church attendance and an interest in roses.... History is of course crammed with people like Mother, who are just sitting it out.

É isso o amor. Manter a ternura pelo mesmo homem, embora se deseje outros a momentos diferentes.

Todos devemos ter percepção das nossas responsabilidades.

To belong to something - that's banal. Creed, ideal, wife or profession: nothing but prison cells and shackles.

I love you. You pay my rent.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

To say Washington was a Deist—even a "soft Deist"—would imply that he did not have a problem violating his conscience each time he worshiped in his church. It is difficult to imagine how Washington, with his expressed concern for his character and his open commitment to honesty and candor, along with his sensitive conscience, could repeatedly and consistently make a public reaffirmation of a faith that he really did not believe.

Whether as General, a private citizen, or as president, Washington never swerved from an expressed commitment to the Christian evangelistic mission to the Native Americans that was a legacy bequeathed to him by the very first Anglican settlers of the colony of Virginia.

The skeptics who argue for Washington the Deist must explain his lifelong and heartfelt commitment to Christian missionary work.

In the medieval marriage service the wife had pledged to be 'bonner and buxom in bed and in board'. This has the nice alliteration of an older language. Now both partners were asked to 'love and to cherish' 'for better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health'.

Marriage is a mystery.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

And then I remembered something Leo McCarey said to me: "Always pay everything off.

chooks. You cannot go away and leave

At the end of the day the fence were still not complete but my family had witnessed my new strength and they I could be the man

fiction is a harsher, more demanding mistress than fact.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Every enterprise requires commitment to common goals and shared values. Without such commitment there is no enterprise; there is only a mob. The enterprise must have simple, clear, and unifying objectives. The mission of the organization has to be clear enough and big enough to provide common vision. The goals that embody it have to be clear, public, and constantly reaffirmed. Management's first job is to think through, set, and exemplify those objectives, values, and goals. Management

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.

The action plan is a statement of intentions rather than a commitment. It must not become a straitjacket. It should be revised often, because every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

To do the most good requires saying no to pressures to stray, and the discipline to stop doing what does not fit.

Effectiveness is, after all, not a «subject», but a selfdiscipline.