Commitment Quotes - Page 39

• If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.

  Kedar Joshi

  Pain, Ideas, Endure

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• If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Next Week, Years

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Dec 19, 2012

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• As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You don't need to make the person 'wrong' for the way they're behaving, simply point out that the behavior is ineffective.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Attitude, Leader

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• Not everyone possesses boundless energy or a conspicuous talent. We are not equally blessed with great intellect or physical beauty or emotional strength. But we have all been given the same ability to be faithful.

  Gigi Graham

  Blessed, Emotional, Faithful

  Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2000). “Weatherproof Your Heart”, Spire

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• I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.

  Misty Copeland

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make.

  Stephen Covey

  Meaningful, What Matters, Years

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• In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run'.

  George W. Bush

  Running, War, Cutting

  George W. Bush's speech at Island Grove Regional Park Events Center in Greeley, Colorado, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 25, 2004.

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• Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Play, Vigor, Impossible

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin

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• Make a commitment to having fun. See your best friends and make time for your hobbies and passions.

  Robert Holden

  Fun, Passion, Hobbies

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• The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Two, Effort, Majority

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• Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

  Imre Lakatos

  Regret, Criticism, Weakness

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• An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Powerful, Order, Sailing

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• There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

  Warren Beatty

  Real, People, Passionate

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• Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Teach, Findings

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• Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.

  Edward Kennedy

  Powerful, Compassion, Views

  "Roberts: 'I Have No Agenda'". www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2005.

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• The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but to the community at large.

  Kevin Cook

  Communication, Community, Bars

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• When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Struggle, Fall, People

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• A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts.

  Mary E. Hunt

  Heart, Justice, Demand

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• I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.

  William Morris

  Real, Thinking, Vision

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• Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

  Brigham Young

  Inspirational, Causes, Tomorrow

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• Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Happiness, Goal, Causes

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “The Power of Positive Living”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I'll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy.

  Jay Robinson

  Hard Work, Wrestling, Average

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• The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  People, Tests

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 19”, p.740, Best Books on

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• A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Real, Want

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• There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true, or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Thinking, Politician, Intention

  "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.

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