Quotes About Commitment

I was taught to put my best into anything I did and I can honestly say Ive always done that. Still, there are many times when I failed, when I was disappointed.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability.

What are you doing?" "Can't you see? I'm sawing down this tree." "You look exhausted! How long have you been at it?" "Over five hours, and I'm beat! This is hard work." "Well, why don't you take a break and sharpen that saw? I'm sure it would go a lot faster." "I don't have time to sharpen the saw. I'm too busy sawing!"[*]

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Men who really love their wives don't cheat on them.

Stay with Jesus, and He'll stay with you.

I convinced myself that having to drive a

Grow up, Brett baby, I would share a lot of things with a lot of people, money, clothes, bed and board, even my last crust I'd be willing to share, but one thing I won't share is a man. You'd better believe it.

Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.

Commitment to deliver on time and on budget was not made based on the details; details didn't exist. Their commitment was based on the ability to shape the details.

It is very important to defer public commitment to exactly which features will be in the product, because this makes it possible to reliably release the product on time. The release date is guaranteed, but the exact features are not. Timebox—don't scopebox.

premature design commitment is a design failure mode

Marriage, however, is not for the consumer; marriage is for the committed.

No dudéis nunca de que un pequeño grupo de ciudadanos comprometidos puede cambiar el mundo. De hecho, es lo único que ha sido capaz de cambiarlo. Margaret Mead

Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love.

In his imagination the pages were printed not with their own paragraphs only, but with all that he himself had brought to them: it seemed as though he must be identified and revealed in them, beyond all pretence of detachment, as if they were a diary to which he had committed every secret of his heart.

She thought: This is how all life should be accepted, in desireless wonder, reaching out for nothing and thrusting nothing away, rejoicing in the different essence of each moment as it blazes into the present from the folded future. But she was under no illusions; for a life of such moments one needed a heart without roots, a spirit free in the wind, and empty hands. Once she had had them. She would never know them again. She had committed too much to earth.

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

2. PERSISTENCE: If an idea or an activity is important to them, spirited children can "lock" right in. They are committed to their task, goal-oriented, and unwilling to give up. Getting them to change their minds is a major undertaking. They love to debate and are not afraid to assert themselves.

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.