Quotes About Commitment

Nothing is casual. Everything requires work, research, and thought. Agonize. Take it seriously. Don't leave it up to someone else, and don't phone it in. There is no such thing as a shortcut if you are going to turn in good work. If I ever enjoy the process, I know I have somehow produced something worthless.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Being happily and successfully married is generally not so much a matter of marrying the right person as it is being the right person.

It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple.

Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives.

And we could have been sweethearts, forever and ever, Could have loved a whole lot more, been a little more true.

the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

Mr. Robert G. Tatum of Tennessee, just twenty-one years old, a postulant for holy orders, stationed at the mission at Nenana, had

So Mr. Jenkins undertook the building of a new place of worship, and, in part under his own hands, an attractive and churchly building arose, costing some $3,000, dedicated to St. John.

At an early age I made up my mind never to have bills when I grew up. I could not know then that this determination would extend eventually to the point of not being married or having a family of my own.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

Socrates said that personal fame counts for nothing if your life isn't itself of virtue, and the same goes for political power. We could certainly demand more virtue from our politicians, starting with a more respectful attitude towards each other as legitimately elected members of parliament, and an inflexible commitment to always telling the truth.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Apenas naquilo que o homem faz, segue fazendo, naquilo em que persevera, ele mostra caráter.

As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don't know what tomorrow's going to bring.

I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.

Let go the ones who just likes you, because they will leave you for the one they love, but don't let go the ones who love you, because they will never leave you for anyone they like

Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you're going to do.

Your governing values should be important enough to you that you will invest your time, resources, and energy in making them a fundamental part of your life.

Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.