Commitment Quotes - Page 40

• Winners make commitments, losers make excuses.

  John Schuerholz

  Loser, Winner, Excuse

  John Schuerholz, Larry Guest (2008). “Built to Win: Inside Stories and Leadership Strategies from Baseball's Winningest GM”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

  Dada Vaswani

  Lifelong, Permanent

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• One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.

  Zig Ziglar

  Dream, Persistence, Differences

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.1, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

  Marianne Williamson

  Betrayal, Self, Punishment

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.157, Hay House, Inc

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• Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

  Baltasar Gracian

  Slave, Obligation, Devices

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• Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Attitude, Integrity

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• Don't mistake routine for commitment, just showing up is not enough.

  Tommy Amaker

  Mistake, Routine, Showing Up

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• Cast aside your doubts. Make a total commitment to living the life you were meant to live.

  Brian Tracy

  Live Life, Doubt, Casts

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 02, 2013

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• By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

  Mason Cooley

  Responsibility, Irony, Multiplying

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• Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Vision, Never Quit

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

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• In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.

  James Van Allen

  Motivation, Adventure, Loss

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• Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.

  Rhonda Britten

  Choices, Moments, True To Yourself

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• When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Ideas

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• Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve.

  Tony Robbins

  Rewards In Life, Perseverence, Achieve

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.

  V. S. Pritchett

  America, Long, Evil

  "The Myth Makers: European and Latin American Writers" by V. S. Pritchett, (p. 102), 1979.

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• To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.

  Allan McNish

  Night, Focus, Racing

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• The Congress, the Administration and the public all share a profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment, and the preservation of the Earth as a place both habitable by and hospitable to man.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Profound, Earth, Administration

  "Be Watchful for our Wellsprings and Ourselves" by Jonah C. Steinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2016.

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• Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?

  Stuart Wilde

  Apology, Essence, Giving

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• Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Motivational, Character, Promise

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• My commitment is my commitment.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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• Good intentions are not enough; commitment and sacrifice are necessary.

  Laurence Boldt

  Sacrifice, Good Intentions, Enough

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.243, Penguin

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• Change does not take time - it takes commitment.

  Thomas Crum

  Change, Doe, Take Time

  Thomas Crum (1987). “Magic of Conflict”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Apology may start as a feeling, a desire to make matters right, but it requires a commitment to move that desire into practice, to actually take on the great courageous task of showing compassion to others.

  John Kador

  Moving, Apology, Compassion

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.15, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• As much as I enjoy romance, it's commitment that I need the most. I need to know a love I can depend on, a love that says, "I will be with you through it all. I love you. And I will love you even when you may not be all that lovable, for sometimes I'm not very lovable either. You can count on me - always."

  Steve Goodier

  Love You, Romance, Love Relationship

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• the Federal Reserve, has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... The European central bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

  Noam Chomsky

  Two, Different, Employment

  Interview with Renowned Scholar, dialogosmedia.org. October 13, 2012.

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