Quotes about Commitment

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

With thee goes thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you're screwed.

If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting for them... I've told every young writer I know to do the job all the way through even if they think it's no good. Then they'll have the precedent of having finished work.

We can make a strong unconditional commitment to ourselves to take care of our deepest needs, no matter what other people do or don't do.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.