Quotes About Commitment

Social psychologists have long known that getting people to publicly commit to a belief is a great way to freeze it in place, making it resistant to change. The stronger the commitment, the greater the resistance.

Everyone must choose one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. – Jim Rohn, entrepreneur and motivational speaker

The ideal of the military hero is clearly echoed in other contexts, and it includes those who routinely risk their health and lives in the line of duty, such as police officers, firefighters, and paramedics.

The call of the new covenant is the same as the old: in loving God, we give him our "all.

I had met my wife in college. Her name was Barbara, and she was the first woman besides my mother to show the faintest interest in me. It took six years to persuade her to marry me.

If they employ men to make music, then these men must abandon their work of ploughing, planting, and cultivation.

The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough, Is having the blind persistence To upset an existence Just for your own sake. What cheek it must take.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,By just exchange one for the other given:I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,There never was a better bargain driven.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in," Abraham Lincoln

We needn't look any further ahead than today or commit to any more than taking one step. When we've taken one, we can commit to taking another. Pretty soon we've reached fifty. Pretty soon we've reached a hundred. Pretty soon we've reached zen.

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

I am an exemplary student, one who never misses a class, who almost always gets the best grades, who is the pride of his teachers.

T. me laisse parler. À la fin, il dit : c'est comme ça, il n'y a rien à discuter (je crois même qu'il dit : négocier). Si tu préfères, on arrête. Si tu ne supportes plus. Là, maintenant, tout de suite. Je dis : non, on n'arrête pas. La terreur de le perdre l'a emporté sur toute autre considération. La dépendance.

The rest is usually just an inhuman amount of tenacious work.

I kept talking until the coup and its various acts and scenes dissolved into a liquid mass that infiltrated my veins—until the air I breathed was the plan itself. Until I became the plan

E chi non vuole intraprendere una lotta accanita di sforzi inutili, pericoli profondi, trappole, chi non è pronto a dare tutto per sentirsi vivere, non ha bisogno di diventare funambolo. Soprattutto , non lo potrebbe.

I work very hard for my clients...I don't always win their cases, but I always give them 100% of my effort and I have gotten more good results than bad.