#commitment

By believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it. This is one reason why men tend to fear commitment. ↗

— Neil Strauss

#gender-stereotypes #love #men-and-women #power #relationships

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. ↗

— Robert Conquest

#congratulate #environment #fault #moral #more

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#commitment #inspired #life #me #mom

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#being #commitment #family #fortunate #i

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. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#actions #almost #america #authority #aware

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. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#commitments #especially #followed #idea #indeed

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#contract #conversation #i #ongoing #ordinary

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#commitment #lot #requires #work

There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#another time #because #commitment #emotional #just

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#being #commitments #composer #conductor #develop