Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rohn

Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably.

Judith Jamison

Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't work for everybody. It's the lifestyle, it's the stamina, it's the love, it's the dedication, it's the commitment, it's all those words.

Josh Gad

There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.

Joseph Lowery

I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the gap. There's something wrong when a handful of people have more than they'll ever need while millions of people have less than they always need.

Joyce Meyer

When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.

Joshua Harris

The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment.

Joshua Harris

Courtship is a commitment - it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart.

Kasey Kahne

Anyone who questions my commitment, doesn't know me.

John Kasich

I remember when the Egyptian ambassador to the United States stood in the Rose Garden and pledged Arab commitment to removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

Lynn Abbey

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

Julianne Hough

So I hope to stretch my acting skills. I got to a point in my dancing where I felt like I did so much hard work and I achieved a lot of great things, and I wanted to try something else and put that same kind of commitment that I did into my dancing into something that I was also passionate about. I had so many opportunities with my dance and now I'm just excited to get better as an actress.

Judy Reyes

Something as unique as 'Scrubs' is a tough act to follow. It's hard to find something that good that you want to really make a commitment to.

Patrick Swayze

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

Gray Davis

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

M. Scott Peck

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.

M. Scott Peck

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

I will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.

John Boehner

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.

Max de Pree

Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.

Matthew McConaughey

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Jack Greene

The donor has a very strong interest and a real commitment to the Multi-cultural Center. He would like to be a member of the team.

Todd Dunivant

The Galaxy showed an incredible commitment to me when they traded for me last year. By signing this long-term contract, I hope to repay their commitment to me for future seasons.

John Linder

The free nations of the world will remain steadfast in our commitment together to ensure that those who hate freedom and liberty will not succeed.

Michael Parks

The founders of our nation recognized that a free press is a safeguard for democracy. The exceptional reporting by The Washington Post and the other finalists demonstrate the importance of the work and commitment by news organizations to serving the public and holding our public institutions accountable.

The funds are back in the market, showing a strong commitment on long positions for crude.

The measure of a nation's commitment to the sanctity of life is reflected in its laws and to the extent those laws honor and defend its most vulnerable citizens.

The market has a very strong undertone to it and would seem reluctant to surrender too much of its recent gains. Very strong and robust turnover yesterday ventures to suggest some serious commitment to the market place.

John F. Kennedy

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

Jonathan Frid

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

Russell Crowe

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Tryon Edwards

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.