Quotes About Commitment

I took good care not to tell anybody that I had resolved never to love without restraint a man who would not return this love in full; such was my disposition that my heart would have belonged entirely and without reserve to a husband who loved only me.

Naturally, the richer the Streltsy became, the more reluctant they were to resume their primary duties as soldiers.

But people only complain about something because they are committed to the value or importance of something else.

How do we help people (whether individuals or groups) to make their third column commitments visible? We begin by surfacing the biggest fears that arise in considering doing the opposite of any or all of the second-column behaviors. In

Nothing tastes as good as the man I married." – Omaima Nelson

No hay beneficio sin sacrificio» y «Quien temprano se acuesta, temprano se levanta...».

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will make little difference what you have chosen instead.

If we are serious about climbing to higher ground, we will be found in church every Sunday—attending all of our meetings, partaking of the sacrament, participating in Sunday School, and contributing to the spirit found in Relief Society, Primary, and priesthood meetings.

The Lord needs us. He needs us to be knowledgeable, dependable, and competent disciples. We need to know not only that the gospel is true but we need to know the gospel, better than we do right now. We need to be in the right place at the right time. We will thereby become the right person.

I should be just as concerned about what I consume on Monday morning as I am on Saturday night. My vows, meaning my covenants, made at baptism and in the holy temple, should and must guide me throughout the entire week.

the psyche of the man who is adequately accessing the Warrior is organized around his central commitment. This commitment eliminates a great deal of human pettiness. Living in the light of lofty ideals and spiritual realities such as God, democracy, communism, freedom, or any other worthy transpersonal commitment, so alters the focus of a man's life that petty squabbling and personal Ego concerns no longer matter much.

I had not been thinking or speaking of the Chinese or the heathen world, but as I awoke with that vision on my mind, I did tremble with the Holy Spirit, and I threw myself on my knees, and every fiber of my being answered, "Yes, Lord, I will go."22

It is either a "once-for-all" salvation or a "not-at-all" salvation. There is no middle ground.

Live to fight another day was an expression that did not take nto account the loved one who would die because you didn't continue fighting today.

The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.

To the success of our hopeless cause

If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly.

The deep truths of the soul's origin, fall, and path of return can only be communicated by way of a full body-mind experience of peace, desire, terror, grief, acceptance, and total commitment. Eliade

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.