Quotes About Commitment

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.

We do what we do," she said. "We do what we must." "Right," she said. "What we must.

An apprentice was unquestioningly loyal until the moment he wasn't. Both Master and apprentice knew this.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

can gauge how important something is to you by how hard you are willing to work to get it.

One thing I had figured out by then was that talent, like everything else, was just a starting point. What counted was what you did with it. I knew I wasn't the most talented guitar player or the best singer or the best writer, but I could do all of those things, and I had a complete vision of what it was going to take to succeed---a vision that included working, working, working.

You're the guy that'll be sneaking out of your bedroom at three o'clock in the morning to look at your bike.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other. It is a perpetual exercise in mortification. — St. Francis de Sales

No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

What we need, we, is fixedness intense, Unequalled effort, strife that shall not cease

We know who we are when we know the concerns for which we are willing to sacrifice.

I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.