Quotes About Commitment

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?

This is the work that gives your life meaning; the work that lets you be your best self and helps you become a better self; the work that is an unparalleled pleasure when it goes well and is worth fighting and sacrificing for when it goes poorly; the work that you are willing to organize your life around.

If any one will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross." The plain meaning of these words is, that there is no following Jesus on any other terms--a doctrine which, however clearly taught in the Gospel, spurious Christians are unwilling to believe and resolute to deny.

In the second stage, fellowship with Christ assumed the form of an uninterrupted attendance on His person, involving entire, or at least habitual abandonment of secular occupations.

Nicodemus was barely able to speak a timid apologetic word in Christ's behalf, and Joseph of Arimathea was a disciple "secretly," for fear of the Jews. These were hardly the persons to send forth as missionaries of the cross--men so fettered by social ties and party connections, and so enslaved by the fear of man. The apostles of Christianity must be made of sterner stuff.

Two of them certainly, all of them probably, had been disciples of the Baptist. This fact is decisive as to their moral earnestness.

My mother's most common childhood memory of me is standing next to me trying to be heard over the voice on the page. I didn't really commit to writing until I understood that it meant making that happen for someone else.

Best of wives and best of women.

In proportion as I discover the worthlessness of other pursuits, the value of my Eliza and of domestic happiness rises in my estimation.

Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything" Malcolm X, likely quoting Hamilton

There are men who, under any circumstances, will have the courage to do their duty at every hazard.

You will stay in therapy as long as you feel it is worth the time, effort and money you invest.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person.

Love is the foundation of all obedience.

our God is that which we think most precious, for which we are ready to make the greatest sacrifices, which draws our warmest love; which, lost, would leave us desolate; which, possessed, makes us blessed.

Her life was a failure because she never focused on anything in particular. She didn't know how to concentrate her attention.

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

Act well your part; there all the honour lies.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.