Commitment Quotes

It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.

Euripides

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Benjamin Disraeli

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Charles Swindoll

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

George P. Shultz

I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

Louise Nevelson

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri

The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.

Anonymous

The middle of the road is where the white line is and that's the worst place to drive.

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception and except under very special circumstances it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

John Foster Dulles

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything and I will show you someone who is insecure.

G. Aiken Taylor

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Margaret Chase Smith

Most people are not for or against anything the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow to overcome inertia.

Mary Parker Follett

I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never for whatever reason turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nathalie Sarraute

The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.

I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart.

Vincent van Gogh

Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

General George S. Patton

If you start to take Vienna take Vienna.

Napoléon Bonaparte

One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too

Theresa Helburn

If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.

If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?

Harvey Fierstein

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

Theirs is not to reason why theirs is but to do or die.

Alfred

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

Ovid

If you aren't going all the way why go at all?

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

Duke P. Kahanamoku

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes something.

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

William F. Scolavino

The dedicated life is the life worth living.

The secret of living is to find a pivot the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Luigi Pirandello

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

L. J. Cardinal Suenens

One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.

I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

William Lloyd Garrison

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.

Lou Holtz

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say "I used everything you gave me."

It seems safe to say that significant discovery really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

Moderation in war is imbecility.

Admiral John Fisher

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Louisa May Alcott

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got hungry scolded God were egotistical or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

Phyllis McGinley

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

Katherine Mansfield

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