Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rhonda Britten

When your commitment is to be loving regardless of the circumstances, there is no room for harsh words. You assert yourself not from a desire to control but from a desire to stand for who you are.

Rhonda Britten

Invest in everything, attach to nothing.

Rhonda Britten

Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.

Rick Warren

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.

Rick Warren

A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

Rick Warren

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

Rick Warren

When the Bible speaks of God's love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.

Rick Warren

Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.

Rick Warren

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

Mary Douglas

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

Mary Catherine Bateson

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

Pope Benedict XVI

During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God in our lives.

Pope John Paul II

The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God is to persevere and advance constantly in Eucharistic life and Eucharistic piety and to develop spiritually in the climate of the Eucharist.

Pope John Paul II

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Pope John Paul II

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

Pope John Paul II

Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God.

Pope Francis

Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.

Pope Francis

Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!

Peter Zumthor

I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.

Paulo Coelho

That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment. Men and women with immense willpower are generally solitary types and give off a kind of coolness. Many people mistakenly think that (they) are cold (people) when nothing could be further from the truth.

Peter Singer

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

Peter Lynch

In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

Phillips Brooks

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Nathaniel Branden

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge

Nathaniel Branden

A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.

Robert Fritz

The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and a reawakening of the longing to fulfill that purpose in life.

Robert Bly

Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the highest thing. . . . Another way to look at it is that the aim of the person is not to be detached, but to be more attached-to be attached to working; to be attached to making chairs or something that helps everyone; to be attached to beauty; to be attached to music.

Rick Larsen

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

Rick Larsen

I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

Making a movie is like getting married. You're like, "Am I going to marry this project? Am I ready for that kind of commitment?"

Thomas S. Monson

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

Thomas Sowell

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

Robert McNamara

The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.