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Quotes about Commitment

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not just when it is easy, but when it is hard.
— Barack Obama
For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.
— Barack Obama
Thanks for sticking with this," Axe said, his voice choked up. I put my arm around him, feeling my own emotions swell. "This is why we do the work," I said. "This. Right here.
— Barack Obama
How many of us are tested in that way, asked to risk careers we've long dreamed of in the service of some greater good?
— Barack Obama
If I say I will do something, I must do it. Otherwise, how will people know that my word is true?
— Barack Obama
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
— Barack Obama
Michelle backstage, beautiful in white, squeezing my hand, gazing lovingly into my eyes, and telling me "Just don't screw it up, buddy!
— Barack Obama
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Good people don't give up on the ones they love.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment.
— Barbara Kingsolver
For some, a lousy day's work will get you yelled at. For farmers, it's live or die.
— Barbara Kingsolver