Quotes about commitment

Alan Rios -

True laziness is the commitment to decrease work and increase efficiency reduce burden and boost creativity expand your knowledge and avoid complications minimize effort and still get it done.

Osho -

Do anything totally and it is finished you will not carry a psychological memory of it. Do anything incompletely and it hangs with you.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

Being best at things has nothing to do with talent it is all about self - discipline and commitment.

William Temple - Fellowship with God

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

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

I don't doubt that you think you love me what I doubt is your understanding of love.

Rollo May - The Courage to Create

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

Rick Warren - The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

The Christian life is more than just commitment to Christ it includes a commitment to other Christians.

Harshit Walia -

Sannyas is not a philosophy it is a quest for TRUTH. It is not a way of life. It is a commitment towards a self discovered state of mind.

Sunday Adelaja -

Your life must not be static you must keep on moving forward towards the higher goal. No obstacle can stop a man who is committed to a single calling or to a single prize

Steve Goodier -

Causes do matter. And the world is changed by people who care deeply about causes – about things that matter. We don’t have to be particularly smart or talented. We don’t need a lot of money or education. All we really need is to be passionate about something important something bigger than ourselves. And it’s that commitment to a worthwhile cause that changes the world.

Brian Klemmer - The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

Commitment doesn't have conditions. A compassionate samurai follows through whether it feels good or not average people do what they feel like doing.

Criss Jami - Healology

The petty man wants to use God for himself the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

James Surowiecki -

Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.

Peter Agre -

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

Barack Obama -

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

David Milne -

We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size.

Steve Buyer -

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

Mark McKinnon -

America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.

Jessica Valenti -

My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

Joseph Rotblat -

Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Tariq Ramadan -

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

Judd Gregg -

The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.

Edward Hirsch -

The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting.

Howard Thurman -

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Nigel Mansell -

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

Greta Scacchi -

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Richard Schickel -

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

Tony Robbins -

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Rollo May -

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Vince Lombardi -

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Zig Ziglar -

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you.

Criss Jami -

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

Dragos Bratasanu - Ph.D.

Your commitment shakes the very foundation of this universe. (from The Amazing You movie)

bell hooks -

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love, then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love. While the rejected adolescent bo

Criss Jami - Venus in Arms

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

Steve Hall -

The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.

Timothy J. Keller - The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

Edna St. Vincent Millay - Collected Poems

I know I am but summer to your heart,And not the full four seasons of the year;And you must welcome from another partSuch noble moods as are not mine, my dear.No gracious weight of golden fruits to sellHave I, nor any wise and wintry thing;And I have loved you all too long and wellTo carry still the high sweet breast of Spring.Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes,I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may hail anew the bird and roseWhen I come back to you, as summer comes.Els

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.

Richelle Mead - Spirit Bound

One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss. Without dreams, I have to be content with my own imagination– which is almost as good. I can picture all of those things perfectly, as w

bell hooks - All About Love: New Visions

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

Dean Koontz - Breathless

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

Kamal Ravikant - Live Your Truth

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

David Rovics -

They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover.

Curtis Tyrone Jones -

You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping into your wildest dreams of self love.

C. JoyBell C. -

Freedom is not the absence of commitment, and to be committed to something or to someone does not mean the loss of freedom. But freedom exists in the realm of the unbound and to be free is to be committed to that which is a part of the unbound realm. Whatever sets your soul to flight is freedom. If someone sets your soul to flight, to stay with that person is not to lose freedom but to stay with that person is to retain freedom. Together you have what is unbound. Whatever will swell your spirit

Laurie Nadel - Dr. Laurie Nadel's Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power

Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel.

Prosper Mérimée - Carmen

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Dory Hollander - 101 Lies Men Tell Women -- And Why Women Believe Them

Women and men who have established no-lie relationships talk about them with reverence, even when they are not permanent and, in fact, even when they are not romantic. Why? In the no-lie relationship there is acceptance of who each partner is, rather than a shallow idealization. There is a genuine commitment to the relationship beyond the immediate. You each act as though you are in a real partnership that will last.

Richelle E. Goodrich - The Tempter's Snare

Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.But never, ever, ever give up.

Ernesto Che Guevara -

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart

The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.

Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart

What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.

Esther Perel - Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.

Esther Perel - Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection, to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. It’s a story that they are writing together, one with many chapters, and neither partner

Laura Munson - This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness

Suffering sucks. Don't do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go homeand base your happiness on one thing and one thing only: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering. Create a life of freedom, not wanting. Have some really good coffee and listen to the red-winged blackbirds in the marsh. Ignore the mosquitoes.

Maggie Stiefvater - Shiver

Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, at my eyes, my mouth, my hands, in a way that made something inside me knot and unknot unbearably.I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Love is total surrender, total acceptance and total commitment.

Donna Lynn Hope -

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Elizabeth Bourgeret -

Love is not really a mystery. It is a process like anything else. A process that requires trust, effort, focus and commitment by two willing partners

Kevin Dellinger - Your Soul Mate

Often we find ourselves in a trap of commitment wondering if your partner can be faithful to you completely. Most people will not commit to this kind of relationship. But if you have found your Soul mate, this will not be a challenge for you. It all depends on the actions of yourself and your partner.

Nicholas. Sparks - The Choice

.. questions that had begun to creep into her thoughts whenever they we're together. When would he be ready? Would he ever be ready? And of course, why he wasn't ready?..

Susan Cooper - Under Stone

And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.

Stacey Jay - Juliet Immortal

Real love has little to do with falling. It's a climb up the rocky face of a mountain, hard work, and most people are too selfish or too scared to bother. Very few reach the critical point in their relationship that summons the attention of the light and the dark, that place where they will make a commitment to love no matter what obstacles-or temptations- appear in their path.

irak.ibrahim hussain didi -

i remind myself every morning, commitment is a big part of trustworthy, what i am and what i believe

Leon Hayduchok -

When it comes to personal relationships, there is no greater way to express your commitment or to display your trustwor- thiness than to devote your life to the people you love.

M.L. Rhodes - Satisfaction

But what slayed Robert was that for all these years, all his adult life, he'd never believed in relationships and commitment. They were highly overrated as far as he was concerned. Some people's entire lives revolved around love...finding it, keeping it. People had written poetry about it, had sacrificed for it, had even died for it. And he'd never been able to understand why. Why would anyone want to invest themselves in such a fickle emotion that sounded too good to be true because it was too

Germany Kent -

Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.

Anthony Liccione -

All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.

Ellen J. Barrier - The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins

Love is ageless and colorless. It is a spiritual force that binds two hearts and two souls together as one.

Olaotan Fawehinmi -

Loving is giving and being loved is receiving. Loving should not depend on being loved, but to all intents andpurposes, your commitment in a relationship is grossly expressed by how much of yourself you share with your partner.

Olaotan Fawehinmi -

The 'dance of love' has different themes and moods, just like every relationship has its highs and lows. Enjoy the high moments and hang-on during the downtimes. The diverse range of emotions is the experience that builds you two. Your ability to perfectly switch between these moments and make the best out of the one you find yourself per time, proves that you are not only involved in the relationship like the chicken is in the business of making eggs but also very committed to it like the pig i

Sharon Weil - Donny and Ursula Save the World

Ursula, we have to talk…' he said, almost blurting. He couldn’t believe he was in the “we have to talk” position. It was so unnerving. 'I have to ask you… Let’s be each other’s emergency contact numbers.' This was his first concession towards commitment.

Gena Showalter - Firstlife

Last will never be more important than commitment. Commitment stacks the odds of a successful relationship in my favor.

Steve Maraboli -

If you want to be with someone, be with them! Don't make excuses, cause drama, or make them fight for a spot in your life. Express your love and commitment with words and actions. And if you don't feel inspired to show your love this way, be kind enough to let them go... so they can find someone who will.

Nityananda Das - Divine Union

A formal period in life where there isn’t the worry of another person’s dramas and insecurities can be of great advantage, especially when used for growing into the full and wholesome beings we intended to be when choosing to come to this material manifestation.“Even after ending a long relationship or a marriage, it seems normal to have some alone-time to reflect, meditate, explore areas of interest, find meaning in one’s suffering and try to placate the void felt in the heart before attempting

Craig D. Lounsbrough - An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future.

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

Your consistency says a lot about your commitment.

Steve Goodier -

We pay a tax to succeed at anything worthwhile. That tax is called dedication, and here's the most wonderful part. Once you pay it, once you truly dedicate yourself to something important, you'll find the price was worth it.

Mark F. LaMoure -

Never stop growing. The world's tallest redwood trees were all once little nuts, that kept growing regardless of weather, trials or tribulations.

Ebelsain Villegas -

There's that moment every day when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not? Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed you are to winning? How committed you are to being a good friend? To being successful?

Mark Hedsel -

It is the one who accepts commitment who is strong. The true commitment is the artistic one. This is why artists are so often attacked. They are attacked for their morals, for their ideas – even for their work. Yet their essence – their commitment – is the secret which is unassailable. The true artist knows that creativity is its own reward. Ordinary people fear commitment, you see. Ordinary people fear creativity. They know that if they allow that seething cauldron of yellow liquid to boil over

Jasper Fforde - Shades of Grey

And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical. It was a dialogue between two young people with high ideals and a Big Plan. It was about belonging, secrets, partnership, commitment.

Criss Jami - Venus in Arms

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.

Bernard Kelvin Clive -

Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works

Lailah Gifty Akita -

There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning.

Lailah GiftyAkita -

You start to live when you commit your life to cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the fulfillment of a higher calling.

Rob Liano -

Perseverance is everything. We all stumbled when we took our first steps yet we were running sooner than we realized, and then we couldn’t stay still. Why stay still now?

Israelmore Ayivor -

The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.

Katie Kiesler - 22 and Single: A Coming of Age Story...in Progress

Real life is messy and hard and never turns out like I’ve imagined. Usually it’s better. So, I try not to dream but rather to pray. If there is one thing I know, it’s that I have no clue what I want. I’m fickle. I’m picky. And I’m scared of a lot of things. Especially commitment.

M.B. Dallocchio -

It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.

Seth Adam Smith - Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

I shall not repent of my faith.

Donald Miller - Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

Toni Sorenson -

If you truly believe something you will attempt to live it. Otherwise you don’t really believe it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

We will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we must pay to achieve it. And when the price comes calling, most visions end up falling.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?

Sunday Adelaja -

I don’t want you to hate me or even to not like me, but I am committed to helping you think and grow and succeed