Quotes About Commitment

when I sensed that my life could be one of fulfillment, and should therefore have seen it as having increased in value, that I felt liberated from the anxieties it had hitherto inspired in me, and was prepared to commit it without hesitation to the unsure hands of chance.

It is as if the minds of people of action, and smart people are people of action (on a minuscule, microscopic scale, but still action), are so consumed by attention to what will be happening in an hour's time that they commit very little to memory.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Si j'avais vos dispositions, je crois bien que j'écrirais du matin au soir

if, when Odette wished to go for a walk, in the morning, along the Avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne, his duty as a good husband had obliged him, though he had no desire to go out, to accompany her, carrying her cloak when she was too warm; and in the evening, after dinner, if she wished to stay at home, and not to dress, if he had been forced to stay beside her, to do what she asked;

Ah! Monsieur, there are people who keep nothing of their life for themselves, not one minute, not one pleasure, the whole thing is a sacrifice for others, they are lives that are given away

Ve gözya?lar?m? silerken de, büyüdü?üm vakit di?er insanlar?n anlams?z hayatlar?n? taklit etmeyece?ime ve bahar geldi?i zaman, e?er Paris'te olursam, davetlere gidip türlü saçmal?klar dinleyece?ime, k?rlara gidip açan ilk akdikenleri görece?ime söz veriyordum...

The love in a marriage turns like the lamp in a lighthouse, leaving you in darkness for long stretches, but it always comes back. I believe that but I can't tell whether it is a thought or a quotation.

No civil servant takes a window for granted.

For some reason, no matter how much I hate a book, I can never manage to just stop reading—I have to see it through to the bitter end.

I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

side. When she tries to explain her passion for it he reminds her how Anthony Trollope wrote all his books after a hard day's work at the Post Office.

It's not easy, you know, to surrender yourself wholeheartedly and generously. Whether the relationship is with God or with another person, there's a great deal of giving-up of self involved in it. I couldn't do it.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

No sé donde pero le encontraré. Oiré su voz y le conoceré. Yo le serviré y le daré mi corazón y mi vida.

ìNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

Have I been made for this, to lie under the blankets and keep myself warm?

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

If death has power, then count on me in death to be the real Marcus Garvey I would like to be. I may come in an earthquake, or cyclone, or plague or pestilence, or as God would have me, then be assured that I shall never desert you and make your enemies triumph over you. Would I not go to hell a million times for you?

It is a way of being Christian in which beliefs are secondary, not primary. Christianity is a "way" to be followed more than it is about a set of beliefs to be believed. Practice is more important than "correct" beliefs. Beliefs are not irrelevant; they do matter. But they are not the object of faith. God is the "object" of commitment—and for Christians, God as known in Jesus.