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Quotes About Commitment

Never promise, even by implication, without fulfilling your promise. The only acceptable alternative to completing an undertaking is to over-fulfil it. To betray any promise, explicit or otherwise, will harm you more than it can harm anyone else.
~ Idries Shah
La generosidad se caracteriza por hacer lo que uno dice que hará. Saadi enseña: "Cuando los generosos prometen, cumplen.
~ Idries Shah
Toma el sendero recto, aunque sea largo; no te cases con viuda alguna, aunque sea una hurí.
~ Idries Shah
La generosidad también se caracteriza por hacer lo que uno dice que hará.
~ Idries Shah
As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.
~ Idries Shah
El enseñar es una vocación únicamente abierta a quienes son verdaderamente capaces de cumplir con sus funciones.
~ Idries Shah
Si quieres convertirte en calígrafo, escribe, escribe y escribe.
~ Idries Shah
Cuando te sientas menos interesado en seguir el Camino en que has entrado, éste puede ser el momento en que sea más apropiado para ti.
~ Idries Shah
people may give lip service to an important contention, yet not be permeated with it.
~ Idries Shah
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
~ Unknown
I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
~ Iggy Pop
Ite, inflammate omnia.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
~ Igor Stravinsky
sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names I dedicate every pore to what's here
~ Ikkyu
Success is fierce. It requires sacrifices and a reformed robust focus . So don't give up now if you want TRUE success.
~ Unknown
Ultimately, it isn't your knowledge that makes the choice: it is your values and your will to be faithful to your values.
~ Ilchi Lee
Action is something you do purposefully with attention. If you really want something, you will use as much energy for it, and you will use it through action.
~ Ilchi Lee
There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.
~ Ilchi Lee
One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
~ Colin Firth
It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.
~ Colin Firth
The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.
~ Unknown
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
~ Colin Powell
There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
~ Colin Powell
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
~ Colin Powell