Quotes about Commitment

For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

Posting a letter and getting married sic are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.

If you are going to be successful, you must develop persistence. How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that your must define your purpose.

I recognize that winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to be the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person. On the other hand, if you marry the right person and treat them wrong, you certainly will have ended up marrying the wrong person.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Love doesn't happen because we use flowery words or express good intentions. It becomes real in our difficult choices every day.

Like sterling silver, love will tarnish unless it is polished with daily applications of interest, involvement, and expressions of love.