Quotes About Commitment

Do you know who is up at four in the morning? Dairy farmers. Paperboys. Lunatics.

I feel like a child. But I learn a little something every day. It's like a whole new way of living. It's a willingness to give up control. To make a commitment and have faith it'll work out.

I will get it done this week barring any big obstacles" shows you have more assurance in your abilities.

I regret I can't make the meeting today

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.

every day with you? Come on

At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set—the set of people who don't give up.

The reason is, when there is a hard problem, one has to work a long time and has to be persistent. In order to be persistent, you have got to be convinced that it's worthwhile working so hard, that you're going to get somewhere.

When you get up in front of a group of people, you make a contract with them; you promise them, "I am going to deliver value X." Every once in a while, you have to say, "See, I remember; I am keeping my promise.

Advocates of self-sacrifice hold that a man's primary obligation is to serve some entity outside of himself.

Although there are many variants of Plato's system, what makes them the same in regard to integration is their commitment to two fundamental principles. In metaphysics, their principle is supernaturalism. In epistemology, it is rationalism.

Our own German language possesses a word which magnificently designates this kind of activity: Pflichterfüllung (fulfillment of duty); it means not to be self-sufficient but to serve the community." (Meln Kampf)

Jesus called his disciples to "follow me," but he didn't tell them where they were going.

Bleed with us.

Wallace shared with the graduates, "In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Followership starts with Jesus, stays with Jesus, goes with Jesus, and ends with Jesus.

Followership is not an easy path, and Jesus never pretended otherwise.

How many Nicodemites are there in every corner of Christianity whose versitis has caused them to be more committed to words than to the Word Made Flesh? How many have made a religion of words and lost sight of God's Image-Made-Story?

Of the three traditional ways of making a living — mud, blood, and grease — preaching involves all three: the mud pies of creativity, the blood bank of living in the Word, and the grease pit of hard work and dirty hands.

True love frees us, and at the same time it binds us:

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.