Quotes about Commitment

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.

Since a value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep, and the amount of possible action is limited by the duration of one's lifespan, it is a part of one's life that one invests in everything one values. The years, months, days or hours of thought, of interest, of action devoted to a value are the currency with which one pays for the enjoyment one receives from it.

After a while, he went back to his task; he decided that pain was not a valid reason for stopping.

I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

One doesn't get to be first in anything without the strength to make some sacrifices.

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.

There is no excuse for not trying.

Let us keep that promise — that American promise — and in the words of Scripture -- hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

And you won't have to wake up at four in the morning," she said, a point that I found most compelling.