Quotes About Commitment

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.

I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.

Little things are little things; but faithfulness in little things is a very great thing.

Martin Luther's statement is often quoted, "I have so much to do that I must spend the first three hours in prayer.

Loss of trust matters because distrust leads people to disengage from their communities, reduce commitment to their workplace and lose the degree to which they share important information with each other. In short, without trust, people focus on self-protection and become unwilling to make themselves vulnerable. (...) People who lack trust are limited in what they can accomplish together.

Duty were our games.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man." I sang it nice and slow

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime would be considered among the fine arts.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, forced himself to write by disrobing and giving his clothing to his valet with strict instructions that it not be returned until he had written the allotted pages.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this.

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.

Specifically, I said words to the effect that "if it isn't about modal logic or Sanskrit, I don't think I want to write about it anymore.

Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the secret of fulfillment is "to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become.

Neither E=mc [squared] nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.