Quotes About Commitment

In the book The Dip, Seth Godin explains the importance and benefits of becoming the best in the world at what you do. As Godin explains in The Dip: "The rewards are heavily skewed, so much so that it's typical for #1 to get ten times the benefit of #10, and a hundred times the benefit of #100.

I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.

She'd just committed to doing something she'd sworn never to do again. She was going home. She was going where the devil lived.

He knew what he wanted. He wanted Jess safe, and he wanted her back in his arms.

If she hadn't wanted to marry him, she could have thought up a good dozen ways to break it to him besides running from the altar like a scalded cat.

Stick with me, Miss Lofton. I'm locked, loaded and ready.

You don't play, you can't win.

Work hard and cheerfully at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.

Dear God, he'd come so close to losing her. Too close. The very thought of how near she'd come to death was enough to take years off his life. Well, no more. He vowed that once he married her, all piratical activity on her part would come to an abrupt end. She could play the Pirate Queen in bed, but beyond that, she would be Lady Falconer, pampered, cherished, adored, and living the life that he, as the most senior officer in the Caribbean, could well afford to give her.

He reached up, caught her hand, pressed it to his lips, and on a resigned breath, murmured, "Emma, dear, sweet, Emma . . . what would I do without you?" "You'd get on just fine," she joked, "for you are Nelson. Now be still—we 'ave much to do before Sir Graham and 'is bride-to-be arrive!

He knelt down before her, and put his fingertips beneath her chin, lifting her head so that she had no choice but to look up at him. "I love you, Maeve," he murmured. "Nothing can change that. I love you, and I would like you to be my wife.

Lady Simms?" he whispered. "Yes?" He swallowed hard, gathering the courage to say what he must. "You . . . you won't leave me, will you?

But Gwyneth was determined that this dark angel, this remote but magnificent man she loved, would not die.

I wish to marry you, Maeve, because I'm an honorable man. I wish to marry you because you are everything I ever wanted in a woman. It has nothing to do with ownership, I wish to marry you because, dammit, I love you!

You are the most exotically beautiful woman I have ever met," he whispered against her forehead. "Don't ever leave me, Amy. I beg of you, never leave me." "I couldn't Charles, not even if I wanted to." And

I'll make you happy, Juliet," he announced, still lounging on the bed with one leg propped over his bent knee, his stockinged foot bouncing playfully up and down. His eyes were warm and laughing. "Providing you can be patient and understanding with me whilst I fumble my way from wild young bachelor to tame and loving husband." He grinned. "I'm impossibly hopeless, you know." "Yes. I know.

Ah, dearest, we must set a date," he said, into her hair. "A very early date, given your delicate condition.

Felt his lips, touching her forehead. "You're not going to die, Maeve. You're not going to die, because I am not going to let you die. Do you hear me? And if you give up and abandon me, so help me God, I shall never forgive you.

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

I realize that we are often slaves to the scheduling demands of others, but thanks to the shortness of these workouts, hopefully you'll be able to squeeze two in a few days a week. (Leave at least six hours between workouts to maximize your gains.) Again, an ideal schedule would look like this: MON cardio (A.M.) upper body (P.M.) TUES lower body (A.M. OR P.M.) WED cardio (A.M.) abs (P.M.) THURS cardio (A.M. OR P.M.) FRI off SAT long circuit (A.M. OR P.M.) SUN off

If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest.

In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

Inspiration is for amateurs.