Commitment Quotes - Page 2

I am a stranger to half measures.

Perform without fail what you resolve.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing's far when one wants to get there.

Queen Marie of Rumania

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might.

Bible

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor.

Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

Saint Margaret of Cortona

Morality like physical cleanliness is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

Victoria Ocampo

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Lord Chesterfield

My face is set my gait is fast my goal is Heaven my road is narrow my way is rough my companions are few my guide is reliable my mission is clear. I cannot be bought compromised detoured lured away turned back diluted or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice hesitate in the presence of adversity negotiate ... at the table of the enemy ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in a maze of mediocrity. I won't give up shut up let up or slow up.

Robert Moorehead

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity and in the end no manhood.

Peter Taylor Forsyth

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors you had better seek another flag.

Anonymous

I don't want people who want to dance I want people who have to dance.

George Balanchine

What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself looked it full in the face and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Andrew Carnegie

Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.

James A. Garfield

Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion.

Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge we must settle things by the sword.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul to either conquer or perish with honor is the secret of victory.

General George S. Patton

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

Emmeline Pankhurst

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.

Abraham Lincoln

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

General William T. Sherman

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

The moment one definitely commits oneself the Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.

What a man believes he will die for. What a man merely thinks he will change his mind about.

Anonymous

When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that thereare some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they areworth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, thatperson isn't fit to live!

Martin Luther King Jr.

A wedding ring is a symbol of commitment; a promise, a pledge, and a vow. The promise is to forsake all others, to stay devoted and true; the pledge is to honor that promise selflessly, to see the whole thing through; and the vow is to keep that pledge unwaveringly, until the days are few. It is a mutual agreement to become one instead of two.

J.W. Lord

If you’re willing to live in a cardboard box on the streets with him, then marry him.

Lori Colombo-Dunham

If you don't feel loved maybe the outward trappings like weddings and wedding rings become important? (Page 567)

Laurell K. Hamilton

I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn’t work

Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.

Love is Not a Game It Is 100% Commitment

Ellen J. Barrier

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

Thomas Jefferson

Commitment...something which is loved and hated in equal measure.

I believe it is the woman in the relationship that drives the relationship to what she wants it to be

Lori Colombo-Dunham

I am offering you a real commitment— a place in my life forever. Even if our relationship ended, our tie to each other never would. Let me make you a vampire, Leila, and watch decades slide by like days while you’re by my side.

He had never thought in his wildest imagination of marriage as an opti

You make me believe in happiness... if I had my way, if anything were up to me, I’d never be without you. You are my purpose.

Courtney Kirchoff

When Marion had been a teenager, she wanted a tattoo. As an oldest child who did mostly what was expected of her, she had been fascinated by the abandon tattoos implied, the willing, blind leap into commitment.

Erica Bauermeister

Men... be the man of your home.. Love your family and protect your wives... so at the end of the day... it wont matter if you live in a cardboard box... the love between you will always be enough.

One cannot go over Niagara Falls in a barrel only slightly.

It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don't want to commit to God. We'll take Him when we need Him, or when things are going good. But real commitment? That requires staying power‎-‎-‎-in faith and in marriage."And if you don't commit? I asked."Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side."What's on the other side?"Ah." He smiled, "A happiness you cannot find alone.

Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.

Shannon L. Alder

Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.

Sex to me is not luxury any more. It is necessity of reproduction.

Do interesting things and interesting things will happen to you.

Love is being able to carry each others circumstances and making it your own, even though you didn't play a role in its foundation.

Love is immune to whatever circumstance.

I had a problem with commitment. I was afraid to proclaim that I had found Jesus, been saved, boarded the boat bound for eternal life. I figured it wasn't something I could announce one week and then a month or two later admit, "Oh yeah, sorry, people. That was my Jesus phase. I'm into transcendental meditation now.

Michelle DeRusha

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