Quotes About Commitment

Eisenhower wrote his own son at West Point: "I have observed very frequently that it is not the man who is so brilliant [who] delivers in time of stress and strain, but rather the man who can keep on going indefinitely, doing a good straightforward job.

The West Point Story

If you can't strive for perfection...just strive.

Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing. Don't become self-satisfied, don't stop moving ahead, growing, making it new. The stakes are high. Why else would we write?

You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope it is strong enough and lasting enough to sustain itself against the hard winters, and the assaults of time.

The woman also tried to save me at lunchtime. We ate salads and fruit and whole-wheat everything, and I was not happy, but I did it for love. I lost a pound.

I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.

Talk of making a sacrifice is all fine and well until it is your time to be brought to the altar as an offering.

Angel, as was Phinehas, a man whose thoughts

Many are called to do great things, but they do not fulfill those callings because they do not give themselves to the little things.

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

If you talked about writing books, you'd never do it.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

if you get distracted from doing your job, you can't perform. And remember this—there is very little sympathy out there for people who cannot perform.

It's easy to focus on self. That is the natural inclination of people. But it is more productive to focus on the team. And it is even more important to focus on the work you must do to help the team.

you can develop all of the wonderful traits you need to succeed—focus, humility, toughness, and passion—but if you quit when things become difficult or when you become discouraged, they all are worthless.

Love is about trust. It's about faith. It's about believing in the person you love.

Like Jesus, we must make the decision that we will never alter, amend, compromise, dilute, or mitigate truth to make our listeners more comfortable or to gain a following.

The challenge before us as God's people is to refuse to allow our thinking to be muddied by the spirit of this age.

It's our responsibility to determine to use our sound minds, hold fast to the Scriptures, and refuse to budge from God's truth.

My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.

Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'