Quotes About Commitment

ese día, sentados en la oficina del consejero y muy avergonzados por la situación de nuestro matrimonio, aprendimos una lección que nunca olvidaremos: aunque éramos cristianos comprometidos desde hacía casi veinte años, nuestra manera de relacionarnos reflejaba mucho más la de nuestra familia de origen, que la forma que Dios tenía pensada para su nueva familia en Cristo.

You Can't Do God's Work Your Way without Paying a Steep Price

leavers are believers who no longer attend church. These men and women made a genuine commitment to Christ but came to realize, slowly and painfully, that the spirituality available in church had not really delivered any deep, Christ-transforming life change—either in themselves or others.

Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.

We're all optimists in our profession or we'd be forced to shoot ourselves. - Joshua Bloch

The really good programmers spend a lot of time programming. I haven't seen very good programmers who don't spend a lot of time programming. If I don't program for two or three days, I need to do it. And you get better at it—you get quicker at it. The side effect of writing all this other stuff is that when you get to doing ordinary problems, you can do them very quickly. - Joe Armstrong

And he was like, "No, no, I really think we ought to do that." And I was like, "We don't have time!" So he wrote it that night.

You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model.  Your primary influence is the environment you create.

I cannot accept merely...I do not do anything merely.

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

There is no just playing to catch the leader in a pick-and-pray—once your picks are in, that's it.

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

It is our responsibilities not ourselves that we should take seriously.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

If this were your first annual review with our company, what would I be telling you right now? A: You'd be thanking me for a job well done and would be explaining how you look forward to continuing to see good work from me. Furthermore, I would anticipate your explaining how you really appreciated my putting in extra time on some key projects and how my creative thinking helped come up with some innovative solutions to existing problems.

You are important enough to invest the time and energy needed for the change you want. Commit to becoming the person you wish to be and carve out the time for what needs to be done!

Their marriage decayed with the exponential determinism of a radioactive isotope and still he sought her out, and accepted her conditions.

You never finish a book. You only abandon it.

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.