Quotes about Commitment

Human being's moral integrity begins when he is prepared to sacrifice his life for his convictions.

Perhaps even more important in the Bonhoeffer family was acting upon what one said one believed. One must not only think clearly but must prove one's thoughts in action. If one was unprepared to live out what one claimed to believe, perhaps one didn't believe what one claimed after all!

He knew that, if left to do as he liked, he might fritter away the rest of his life, just as he'd frittered away so many years already. He knew that he didn't want to go back to where he had been before, and he would take whatever steps were necessary to ensure that he continued on the new path he was now on.

Wilberforce could put her at ease. Some, he writes to her, "are thrown into public, some have their lot in private life…. It would merit no better name than desertion…if I were thus to fly from the post where Providence has placed me.

Some wondered whether he was just kicking against the goads, but when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.