Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Irsay

In a way, it's a great thing that I have the opportunity to stand at the crossroads of Los Angeles and Indianapolis, and stay right here, ... People say that reality is in the footsteps, and not the words. That, as much as anybody, gives you a chance to show your sincerity and commitment, and what you're all about as far as leaving a legacy.

Jim Morrison

The time to hesitate is through.

Eric Shinseki

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Eric Liu

Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue.

John McCain

We were pleased to hear the President state his firm commitment that he will do whatever is necessary to accomplish this important goal.

John McCain

It's pretty clear we have enough Guard people in the United States, but are they capable of handling our oversees commitments as well? We need to figure out how that impacts our ability in Iraq.

The closures that are indicated are further out because of those commitments.

The coalition's commitment to Afghanistan and to defeating this enemy remains steadfast.

Curtis Brown

The company has made a commitment to 150 jobs in four to five years, to say nothing about increasing the value of the building.

The commitment will never prevent us from retaliation.

Ralph Nader

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.

The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life.

Sheena Iyengar

In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.

Michelle Obama

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

John Dewey

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

John Carroll

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

Joel Fuhrman

When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don’t bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.

Jimmy Swaggart

Because God is faithful, He can be trusted fully to completely carry out His commitments to us in Christ.

Jimmy Smits

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

Francois Fillon

The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.

Joel Osteen

Marriage is a commitment, not a feeling.

Joel Osteen

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Jim Talent

If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

Louise Hay

I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.

Lucy Powell

As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.

Lou Gerstner

Vision is easy. It's so easy to just point to the bleachers and say I'm going to hit one over there. What's hard is saying, OK, how do I do that? What are the specific programs, what are the commitments, what are the resources, what are the processes we need in play to go implement the vision, turn it into a working model that people follow every day in the enterprise. That's hard work.

Lawrence Lessig

There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.

Leon Wieseltier

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

John M. McHugh

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.

John Lydon

I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and I never will. That's permanent. That's true love.

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.