Sentence examples for commitment to myself from inspiring English sources
"I was turning 40 and I had not made any mark in the world that I was happy with, and I said to myself, 'Nobody is going to pay you to follow your dreams, and if you want to write prose, write prose.' And so my first novel was a commitment to myself". Having finished her first novel, she promptly put it under her bed, until Nina Collins, who had just set up a new literary agency, sent her a letter.
Instead of finding a man to commit myself to, I first need to fully make a commitment to myself: a commitment to be my own best friend, my own Prince Charming, my own fairy tale happy ending.
I made the commitment to myself back in July after seeing Jaci Velasquez in concert.
When traveling, she said, "I make a commitment to myself not to stay up all night answering e-mails".
To keep this commitment — to myself and to others — I've marked off certain times on my calendar for these meetings.
Frankly, I also have had a strong commitment to myself never to stay too long in the game.
DIANA JEAN SCHEMO The pledge: Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future mate and my future children to be sexually abstinent from this day until the day I enter a biblical marriage relationship.
This does not alter my commitment to defend myself against the untrue piled up charges contained in the indictments against me".
By this time, I had more or less decisively committed to smoking pot as a bi-hourly activity, and though I lacked the commitment to better myself as a video game player, I spent hours sitting on the couch watching people play who had a knack for negotiating the nuances of the PlayStation controller.
"I've made a commitment to God and myself: I will do everything I can to eliminate these sicknesses," he says.
