Quotes About Commitment

You hammered the iron that lay on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

and I'll be hanged before I let Andor march to the Last Battle without me.

I ran from you as hard as I could to shield my honor. And you followed me even here. The rings do not lie, and I can run no more. Her tone firmed decisively. I will run no more.

There was a saying in the Borderlands: "Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather." Once you had that mountain firmly on your shoulders, there was no way to put it down. There was no one else to carry it anyway, and no use whining about

a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart.

No woman with grit could give up when she had children

I did not come to Tarwin's Gap to retreat, Agelmar." "Dai Shan, I'm led to believe you came here to die.

Under the Light," she said firmly, looking up at him, "I, Alliandre Maritha Kigarin, pledge my fealty and service to Lord Perrin Aybara of the Two Rivers, now and for all time, save that he chooses to release me of his own will. My lands and throne are his, and I yield them to his hand. So I do swear.

if you got a woman to feed you on a regular basis, she was halfway won.

been a Sitter before

Should and would build no bridges

When i marry, it will be beacause I want to, not just because a man expects me to love him.

No masterwork comes without a price, he thought. That doesn't mean it's not worth forging.

I left... to save you, Nynaeve whispered. I only came along to protect you.

It is a consistent mark of the DDOs we studied that the senior people are as deeply engaged in the personal growth journey as the newest hires. Working

I was married to Erma for almost forty years, you can't be jealous of my memories

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average.

Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed.

Winston Churchill had grasped Eisenhower's hand and told him, with tears in his eyes, "I am with you to the end, and if it fails we will go down together.

we had pulled a bait and switch on the National Guard and Reserves—most men and women had joined the Guard in particular expecting to go to monthly training sessions and summer training camp, and to be called up for natural disasters or a national crisis; instead, they had become an operational force, deploying for a year or more to join an active and dangerous fight and potentially deploying more than once.

Given his campaign rhetoric about Afghanistan, I think I myself, our commanders, and our troops had expected more commitment to the cause and more passion for it from him. ...I never doubted Obama's support for the troops, only his support for their mission.

I will do my duty, but I can't wait to lay down this burden.

I considered the practice the equivalent of involuntary servitude and a breach of faith with those affected, and I was determined to end it. A few months before I retired, not one soldier was on stop-loss.