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Quotes about Commitment

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
- Martin Luther
Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
- Martin Luther
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
- Martin Luther
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The question is not whether we will be extremists but what kind of extremist will we be.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.