Quotes About Commitment

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers..

If I don't practice for two weeks, my audience notices. If I don't practice for a day I notice.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

If you are painter it's your whole existence. It's not an activity

Even if the tutoring was only for one hour a day, he told his mother, 'I shall feel that I have got to be back at a certain time and it would hang like a dark shadow over my pleasure'.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.

The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

Not one of you has faith until I am dearer to him than his son and his father and all men together." But this utterance of the Prophet was not so much a demand as a confirmation of the rightness of a love that had already been given - a love which found its expression so often in the words: "May my father and my mother be thy ransom.

Having purpose differs from having any particular purpose. You get meaning in life from the purposes that you join. But after working in a particular discipline, industry, or job for twenty or thirty or forty years, you begin to be wedded to that specific purpose, that particular form.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

If I had heard that as many devils would set on me in Worms as there are tiles on the roofs, I should nonetheless have ridden there.

Here stand I. I can do no other.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

Hier stehe Ich, Ich kann nicht anders." ("Here I stand, I can do no other")

Now, you can stand it when your body emits a stench before you realize it, or when it festers and becomes pussy and completely pollutes your skin. You make allowances for all this. In fact, this only increases your concern and love for your body; you wait on it and wash it, and you endure and help in every way you can. Why not do the same with the spouse whom God has given you, who is an even greater treasure and whom you have even more reason to love?

Here I stand, I can do no other.

Since God will have us leave father and mother for his sake, certainly he will have us leave lords (governors) for his sake.

In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word.