Quotes about Commitment
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over. Sometimes these desert lines are simply the only way to the next oasis, which is far more lush and beautiful after the desert crossing than it could possibly have been without it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
But if Hugh dies first, would I ever be able to stop saying, we and say I? I doubt it. I do not think that death can take away the fact that Hugh and I are we and us, a new creature born of the time of our marriage vows, which has grown along with us as our marriage has grown. Even during the times, inevitable in all marriages, when I have felt angry, or alienated, the instinctive we remains. And most growth has come during times of trial.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Many waters cannot quench love,' she whispered. 'Neither can floods drown it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]
— Malcolm X
Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.
— John Maxwell
My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.
— Joyce Banda
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
— Frank Herbert
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
— Og Mandino
Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.
— Stephen Covey