Quotes About Commitment

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

Clayton reported Brigham Young saying that "the man must love his God and the woman must love her husband," adding that "woman will never get back, unless she follows the man back.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

If I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.

Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one's life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one's life long.

But Khair did not need such proof of her husband's love for her. Over and over again, James had risked everything for her. Most reationshps in life can survive - or not - without being put to any real crucial, fundamental test. It was James's fate for his love to be tested not once, but four times...At each stage he could easily have washed his hands off his teenage lover. Each time he chose to remain true to her. That, not the words of any will, was the evidence she could cling to.

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

I am yours, for time and eternity--time and eternity.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go

This is what I mean by quitting surfing. When you surf, as I then understood it, you live and breathe waves. You always know what the surf is doing. You cut school, lose jobs, lose girlfriends, if it's good.

I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would.

First, they provide a compelling example of what it means to pursue quality as a guiding principle in business, investing, and life—a moral and intellectual commitment inspired by Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Be not Christians by halves, but go through with it; the thorough Christian is the true Christian.

Formerly soldiers used to take an oath not to flinch from their colours, but faithful to cleave up to their leaders; this they called sacramentum militare—a military oath.

Doctrine. That it is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to get an established judgment of the truth, but also to maintain a steadfast profession of the truth. This

We must not spread our sails of profession in a calm, and furl them up when the wind riseth.

Love never thinks itself a loser so long as it keeps its beloved; yea, it is ambitious of any hazardous enterprise, whereby it may sacrifice itself in the service of its beloved, as we see in David, who put his life in his hands for Michal. How

Amor meus pondus meum—every man goes where his love carries him. If the world has your love, on it you will spend your lives; if truth has your hearts, you will catch the blow that is made at it in your own breasts, rather than let it fall on it.