Quotes About Commitment

Shutting his laptop screen, he said, "Two of our fellow fighters have achieved martyrdom.

My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing.

I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.

Your love is doomed, you must give it everything you've got.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

What's glamorous is being a good father, a good husband, a good fucking dog owner. That's what I care about today. That's what matters. I will devote everything to that. And I will succeed. Because I cannot fall down again. I will not fall down again. I mean, I don't have to fall. None of us have to fall. We don't all fall down. We don't. So I'm over this drug shit. It's done. And this is my last recovery memoir ever.

And that leaves you with an interesting choice... Do you sacrifice you own happiness and feelings of peace in order to have this relationship, or do you start to get well and choose a real life...?

She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing.

To begin this Practice is easy. To persevere is difficult.

men all over the Victory were running to their posts, some to other tasks but the vast majority to man the ship's 104 guns

He had advanced so rapidly that for eight days in a row he had never once taken off his boots.

Nobody worked harder than Napoleon himself. Fifteen hours a day was quite normal for him.

Work occupied Napoleon entirely. He neither rested by day nor by night,

Just as with swimming or riding a bike, you can't really learn how to fall in love from reading a book not even this one. Sure you can read about the different swimming strokes or the parts of a bicycle; you can learn the theory and physics behind the sport. But to get to the heart of the matter you've got to leap in and learn by doing.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

He's not seeking some greater truth beyond the work. The work is the truth.

Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it. If you don't, when the kids are gone, you'll look in the corner and it'll be dead.

You don't feel courageous because courage is not an emotion. There is no such thing as feeling "courageous." It is an imaginary emotion. Courage consists of doing what you said you would do even when you don't want to. In the face of danger, you have a choice to be the delegate of either your commitments or your feelings. It's as simple and as difficult as that. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon

It takes courage to tell the truth about what you are committed to. Most of us are not completely, unshakably committed to having a truly marvelous career or marriage or anything else. For the most part, we are committed to comfort, low risk, and equilibrium. Remember, wanting/wishing and commitment are two completely different domains.

He writes down what he most wants to do. Then he commits to doing it. It becomes a goal, then a project to plan, with actions to take. Then it becomes an adventure to live. The point is not to become a goal setter but to live an extraordinary life. Clear goals are the path to that kind of life.

How can an intelligent person, committed to choosing a new career path, decide exactly which direction to pursue?

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.