#commitments

Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #band #burden #commitments #country

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#commitments #poverty #priorities #prioritize #purpose

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

— Rick Warren

#life

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together. ↗

— David Bowie

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I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#because #believable #commitments #crowd #does

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road. ↗

— Lee Child

#bogged #bureaucracy #commitments #down #everything

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#break #commitments #keep #losers #make

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses. ↗

— Julius Erving

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