#commit

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#charitable #commit #courses #design #discretion

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ↗

— Milton Berle

#committee #group #hours #keeps #loses

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#committees #composition #hated #i #music

Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dedication #goals #needs #opportunity #relationships

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. ↗

— Frank Church

#american public #cia #committee #concern #covert

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#priorities #change

Marriage is a million piece puzzle; a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated.   It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation; a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#endurance #marriage #perserverance #resoluteness #reward

Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders. ↗

— Sebastian Junger

#duty #patriotism #sacrifice #war #men

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. ↗

— Bishop Desmond Tutu

#inspiration #inspirational

Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow. ↗

— C.Toni Graham

#author #c-toni-graham #commitment #inspirational #ya-author