#commitment

Jack: "..You were the on­ly one I saw when I closed my eyes" Lexi: "Then why wasn't I enough when they were open? ↗

— K.A. Linde

#hurt #jack #lexi #commitment

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits one-self, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. ↗

— William Hutchison Murray

#commitment #creation #determination #initiative #dreams

I am offering you a real commitment— a place in my life forever. Even if our relationship ended, our tie to each other never would. Let me make you a vampire, Leila, and watch decades slide by like days while you’re by my side. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#love #life

It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don't want to commit to God. We'll take Him when we need Him, or when things are going good. But real commitment? That requires staying power‎-‎-‎-in faith and in marriage." And if you don't commit? I asked. "Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side." What's on the other side? "Ah." He smiled, "A happiness you cannot find alone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#god #happiness #marriage #mitch-albom #religion

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

— Zig Ziglar

#bed #character #commitment #discipline #enabled

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#being #commitment #down #financial #gifted

Honor your commitments with integrity. ↗

— Les Brown

#honor #integrity #your

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers. ↗

— Les Brown

#commitment #give #life #make #need

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#commitment #equality #instead #males #poor

We stand with the people of Taiwan and their democratic ways, and I am proud to be a part of reaffirming the unwavering commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act by the United States Congress. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#am #commitment #congress #democratic #i