Quotes About Making Commitments

#1. When it comes to making commitments to other people, sometimes one of the hardest things to learn to say is no when we mean no.

Rory Vaden

#2. I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.

Malcolm Turnbull

#3. Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Peter Drucker

#4. But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

Mitchell Baker

#5. I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

Robert Plant

#6. Be careful when you seek to destroy another. For it is your soul that will be consumed and you are the one who will cry. Never allow anger and hatred to poison you.

George R R Martin

#7. It's much easier to talk about following Jesus when you are making general statements rather than specific commitments.

Kyle Idleman

#8. I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

Twyla Tharp

#9. Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

Willy Brandt

#10. This week we saw progressive business and faith leaders making strong commitments that are moving ahead of what world leaders promised today. The leaders of major economies must be bolder than they were today in providing a vision for 100% renewable energy for all.

Kumi Naidoo

#11. When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness
an incompleteness
in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it.

Willard Gaylin

#12. For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.

Stefan Zweig

#13. The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

#14. [Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.

Bashar Al-Assad

#15. I just sit there. The morning started out like crystal, but the day has turned to broken glass.

Sharon M. Draper

#16. May I be mindful both making and keeping commitments that they be springboards to liberation, instead of suffering, for all sentient beings.

Gay Hendricks