Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Trust, but verify.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook’s a free service. It’s free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

Love can do much, but duty more.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.