Quotes About Commitment

The more a woman appreciates the hunting prowess of her man, the more he will kill for her.

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

You should know now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, not by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it. Carlos Castaneda

And what makes people work is an idea worth working for, along with a clear understanding of what needs to be done.

All you need to do is begin living your life as if it were important. All you need to do is take your life seriously. To create it intentionally. To actively make your life into the life you wish it to be.

JESUS MAY CALL YOU TO CHANGE CAREERS AND BECOME A MISSIONARY . . . BUT IN THE MEANTIME YOU ANSWER HIS CALL BY DILIGENTLY DOING WHATEVER IT IS YOU DO.

Faith requires knowledge, for we cannot believe in what we do not know. But it also requires commitment: we must place our entire weight on what we claim to know.

What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

In Dante's Limbo, the Ignavi are always waiting. Their crime in life was that they preferred to wait until everything was decided rather than commit themselves to a cause when its prospects were uncertain, and now they are condemned to wait forever in the vestibule of hell. Anyone can jump on a bandwagon. The heroes are those who got involved long before the bandwagon arrived. You have to find a cause and commit yourself fully. That's the first step in giving meaning to your life.

Ten percent is the golden number – the number that changes the world. Be part of that ten percent. Be a hero. Let future generations talk about you

Oliver Wood

I'm such a stickler for veracity that I hired nine fact-checkers to go through every citation of the How Not to Die manuscript, and I committed to the same rigor with this book.

Life is too short to half-ass it. Full-ass it!

There is no such thing as a weekend, and you don't live for your holidays

When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

Allen said he'd leave before ever letting Rondo do it for him.

He told KG that if he didn't win as a Celtic, he'd give Garnett one of his rings.

Michael Hutchinson

The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

At times it felt like I was killing myself. And yet the only thing I could recall at that moment was how much fun it had been, and how wonderful it was to do this for a living.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.