Quotes About Commitment

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.

We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will.

It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.

Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.

No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.

The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!

Of course, it has never paid much.

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

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.

I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot.

There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.

I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.