Commitment Quotes - Page 28

• To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Mean, Israel

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• Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Intelligent, Past, Age

  "A grand finale" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2002.

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• Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Generosity, Aristocracy, Position

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• It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Views, Focus

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

  Jane Rule

  Success, Balance, Lasts

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• We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Giving, Morocco

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• One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

  Rollo May

  Leadership, Leader, Doubt

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

  David Jeremiah

  Destiny, Cost, Discipleship

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• The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are meant to travel together, with spirit leading the way. Until we make a conscious commitment to understand and embrace our spiritual nature, we will endure the ache of living without the awareness and guidance of the most essential part of ourselves.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Spiritual, Effort, Mind

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.147, Anchor

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• I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

  Sumner Redstone

  Winning, Excellence, Improvement

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• The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any of these three are lacking. The raw material of dharma practice is ourself and our world, which are to be understood and transformed according to the vision and values of the dharma itself. This is not a process of self- or world- transcendence, but one of self- and world- creation.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Art, Our World, Self

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• A dolly move is a moral commitment.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Moving, Moral, Film

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• If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.

  Brett Favre

  Play, Percent, Ifs

  "Brett Favre Has His Say 'On The Record" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. July 15, 2008.

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• Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.

  Gerda Lerner

  Sex, Intimate Relationships, Order

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• For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.

  Steve Buyer

  Grateful, Sacrifice, Honor

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• I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

  Adam Arkin

  Drama, Mean, Long

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• In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air.

  Thomas Carper

  Home, Air, Numbers

  "Showing a Father’s Love by Protecting Our Children’s Health" by Tom Carper, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• I've been stocking my nuts away like a squirrel for 15 years. I don't have kids, I don't have a wife. I own my own house. I don't owe anybody for it so I put my nuts away. I really made a commitment to myself to just do what I like to do and want to do, and not to do anything. I'm not even going to give six weeks away for money anymore, you know?

  John Corbett

  Kids, Squirrels, Years

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• 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

  Responsibility, Thinking, Walking Away

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• The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Powerful, Achievement, Messages

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, People, Doubt

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• Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

  Donald Worster

  Strong, Simple, Goal

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• That has been my personal relationship with God-a connection with the powerful, loving, wise energy in all of us, in all creation. It is the life force itself. We can all have contact with it each moment in our lives, but it takes commitment and practice. We must be willing to move through all our deepest fears, doubts, and misunderstandings.

  Shakti Gawain

  God, Wise, Powerful

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• God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make a definite, positive act of commitment and surrender to the love of God. No one can do it for us.

  Billy Graham

  God, Believe, Needs

  Billy Graham (2003). “Breakfast with Billy Graham: 120 Daily Readings”, Testament

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• And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Games, Giving

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