Top 368 Commitments Quotes & Sayings

Work has been my lover - I've shied away from any commitments.

By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations, and even employees without much remorse or maybe even hesitation.

A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.

No rash decisions. No big commitments. Each day as it comes.

In Liberia, our main obstacle is infrastructure: the lights, the water, the roads. Companies can't operate without those things. And even though we have commitments from our partners, it takes time to turn commitments into cash.

We can't let government make long-term commitments that it may not be able to keep.

We need to consolidate our enlargement agenda but be cautious with new commitments.

My commitments are for Punjabi films - I want to work for the industry to uplift it.

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

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

I have three commitments. Number one commitment is promotion of human value. Number two commitment is promotion of race harmony. Number three commitment is about Tibet. My retirement is the third commitment. The previous two commitments, to my death, I have committed.

There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

Wisdom in groups emerges as a product of commitments we make with ourselves and to each other. These stances are not abstract rules but tangible practices that must be renewed each time we are in groups. They are essentially commitments and attitudes that foster collaboration and positive collective action.

I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments.

But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.

The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.

With my resignation, I... left unfulfilled commitments I made to many comrades in the fight, commitments I hold sacred. My service did not end as I would have wished.

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

It is of considerable importance that politicians stick to their commitments or do not make such commitments in the first place.

Give life meaning through your commitments.

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

In any country when you're going to make significant commitments, you have to look the head of state of that country eyeball to eyeball and say to them, 'I'm going to make this commitment, and I'm counting on you and your commitments.'

Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.

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.

Honor your commitments with integrity.

I'm 30; I don't have any commitments, and there are great parts out there that I want to play.

You can't walk away from your responsibilities and commitments.

All commitments require sacrifice and hardship.

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

The responsibility for keeping our commitments to veterans falls on the federal government.

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

The tech industry should make bold commitments to address pressing societal issues.

Always remember, the goals that we have achieved pale in comparison to the daily commitments it took to get there.

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

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

Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond.

Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and trusts, and therefore it is the control center of the whole life. So to preach to the heart means to go right for the commanding commitments of people's lives that drive their desires, thinking, feeling, and action.

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

We will maintain and honor the commitments made to people in the IPERS system.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Commitments, not feelings, hold life together.

I can't run away from my prior commitments in Tollywood just because I have an offer from Bollywood.

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.

The week of the Super Bowl takes on a carnival atmosphere. There are so many media commitments. There are so many NFL commitments, buses being shuttled from here to there. You are practicing at unfamiliar places. You are asked to do things that are outside of the norm of your typical game week.

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.

Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.