Quotes about Commitment

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

Whenever you say yes to something, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your yes is worth the less.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

Friends do everything they can to protect each other. --Polly

Love isn't what you feel. It's what you do.

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.

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.

Many waters cannot quench love,' she whispered. 'Neither can floods drown it.