commitment

When you're good at making excuses, it's difficult to excel at anything else.

However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision.

Thankfulness to God, if not followed by commitment to Obey Him, will tend to stop the continuous supply of God's blessings in our lives.

You must be more committed to the truth of God's word and what is right than the flaws in our society.

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

The poet lusts after emotionally unavailable people because she doesn't have to worry about commitment. The poet desperately wants commitment.

If you__e willing to live in a cardboard box on the streets with him, then marry him.

I still don't know what sort of world this is, she thought, But whatever world we're in now, I'm sure this is where I will stay. Where we will stay. This world must have its own threats, its own dangers, must be filled with its own type of riddles and contradictions. We may have to travel down many dark paths, leading who knows where. But that's okay. It's not a problem. I'll just have to accept it. I'm not going anywhere. Come what may, this is where we'll remain, in this world with one moon.

You can make any promises as long as you are not going to be there to fulfill them.

To carry words in your heart that are less than loving would be a mistake . Only allow kindness to move in and evict the rest.~bns

Commitment is the demonstrated will to deliver for the people around you.

Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

The only people that can ruin a relationship or make that relationship work are the two people in it.

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Your commitment should stand even in a fallen state