Quotes about Commitment

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.

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.

For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.