Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erich Fromm

If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

Commitments present themselves in delineations of black and white. You either honor your commitments or you don't. Success is the result of making and keeping commitments to your self and others, while all failed or unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the direct result of broken commitments. It's that simple, that profound, and that important.

If you make a commitment, honor it. If you make a promise, keep it. If you set a goal, achieve it.

Francoise Sagan

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.

Chrissie Hynde

The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.

Christian Bale

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

George W. Bush

Our Nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom.

George W. Bush

We concluded that tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world. Many nations have voiced a commitment to peace and security, and now they must demonstrate that commitment to peace and security in the only effective way: by supporting the immediate and unconditional disarmament of Saddam Hussein.

Felicity Huffman

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

Faye Wattleton

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

Ezra Taft Benson

When individual members and families immerse themselves in the scriptures regularly and consistently, … other areas of activity will automatically come. Testimonies will increase. Commitment will be strengthened. Families will be fortified. Personal revelation will flow

Ezra Taft Benson

To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassin g. It is no lukewarm endeavor. It is total commitment of our very being-physicall y, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually-to a love of the Lord.

Eve Ensler

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

Francis Chan

Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment.

Ellen Johnson

Thanks for your support and go out on Tuesday and vote for the interest of Liberia. Vote for the future of Liberia. Vote in the interest of education, ... We have a commitment to improve the quality of living of all Liberians.

So that showed the kind of commitment that players want to improve ... I think in the end the trip was definitely worth it.

Somewhere in there he has recognized that this story is symbolic of faith, commitment and determination. He really went out and wanted to do this particular role. I think we have an individual here that will portray it in the proper manner and be true to the documentary information of the particular movie. And I'm looking forward to that.

I've just tried to preach to them to make the commitment necessary in practice and out on the mat to develop a good work ethic. I think that's developed confidence in them, especially in the young ones.

I've enjoyed working with the kids. They're all great kids. This job takes commitment. There are a lot of evenings, weekends and holidays.

Greta Scacchi

I'm more keen on the person I'm involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.

Fisher Stevens

I think connection makes me vulnerable. Commitment makes me vulnerable, really.

Cassandra Clare

We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.

George Eliot

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

Everybody?s looking for the magic pill. But commitment is an ongoing process. It?s not something you do once. You revisit it.

The Big East is one of our partners and I've made a commitment to go to each one of the new schools. I thought it would be a good game when I circled it and West Virginia is leading the conference and South Florida is trying to be the spoiler and get back in the race.

Bruce Babbitt

Stewart Udall, more than any other single person, was responsible for reviving the national commitment to conservation and environmental preservation.

That first period was probably the worst period we've played all year. We had a talk about commitment and skating after the first and I thought we were fortunate to be down only 1-0.

It's in the tens of millions of dollars to make a commitment like this, to really make this come to be a reality. There's no question it's a large commitment for our company, our family,

It's our commitment to meet the request of the Solomon Islands to help them deal with an issue they can't deal with themselves. And we say the first step in that is a restoration of law and order,

It's up to them. But they've got to be impressed (with Ole Miss) because we've got three (commitments).

Does that lead you to doubt his commitment?

The NPT is an international commitment and we are committed to that.

Terry Stotts

It was a tough game. And we pressed for 36 minutes. In the fourth game in five nights, to show commitment to winning a game we needed to have, the guys showed a lot of heart and character.