Quotes About Commitment

People become leaders when they make the decision not to sacrifice their principles on the altar of convenience or compromise.

Purpose propels those who are committed to God's plans through the worst of experiences.

Marriage is the grave of love.

A man says: "I love you - will you marry me?" What he really means is: "Will you come to look after my house, do my mending, bear my children, bring them up, cook for me when necessary, and see that the plumbing is in perfect order? I shall give you board and clothes, though you may have to speak several times about the clothes, and an occasional pat on the cheek.

To get a women you have to risk losing her.

As we reflect on the value of resolving to do better, let us determine to discipline ourselves to carefully select the resolutions we make, to consider the purpose for making them, and finally to make commitments for keeping them and not letting any obstacle stop us. Let us remind ourselves at the beginning of each day that we can keep a resolution just for that day.

God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.

29"I'll tell you the truth," replied Jesus. "No one who has left a house, or brothers or sisters, or mother or father, or children, or lands because of me and the gospel 30will fail to receive back a hundred times more in the present age: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands—with persecutions!—and finally the life of the age to come. 31But plenty of people at the front will end up at the back, and the back at the front.

Jews may face martyrdom (not least because they refuse to privatize their faith), but they are committed to being good [162] citizens even under a regime at best penultimate and at worst blasphemous.

the word the early Christians used for "faith" can also mean "loyalty" or "allegiance.

But pistis could also point to the personal commitment that accompanies any genuine belief, in this case that Jesus was now "Lord," the world's rightful sovereign. Hence the term means "loyalty" or "allegiance." This was what Caesar demanded from his subjects.

will be painful. That is part of the point, not that we seek the pain, but that we seek to follow Jesus.

Rereading some of these writers, one is tempted to say that if anyone needed help to struggle against some of the unfortunate things they committed to paper, it was not Paul, but some of his twentieth-century interpreters.

Once a good friend like me, always a good friend like me.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.".

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

Hard work has made it easy.That is my secret. That is why I win.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

I'm happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!