Quotes About Commitment

Perhaps even more important in the Bonhoeffer family was acting upon what one said one believed. One must not only think clearly but must prove one's thoughts in action. If one was unprepared to live out what one claimed to believe, perhaps one didn't believe what one claimed after all!

He knew that, if left to do as he liked, he might fritter away the rest of his life, just as he'd frittered away so many years already. He knew that he didn't want to go back to where he had been before, and he would take whatever steps were necessary to ensure that he continued on the new path he was now on.

Wilberforce could put her at ease. Some, he writes to her, "are thrown into public, some have their lot in private life…. [It] would merit no better name than desertion…if I were thus to fly from the post where Providence has placed me.

when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

I take no pleasure of what needs to be done! - 343 Guilty Spark

A visão é a parte inegociável da missão da equipe – é aquilo que faz você preferir fechar as portas a ter que ceder.

As diretorias de crescimento também elevaram o poder do Citi de atuar de acordo com seu compromisso de servir ao cliente. "Esse processo nos deu a linguagem para falar de validação e clientes de uma maneira completamente diferente do que apenas dizer: 'Vamos focar no cliente'", diz Colella. "Temos um processo e um sistema para validar o que nossos clientes precisam, mesmo que, em muitos casos, eles ainda não saibam do que precisam.

Throughout the process of driving, you always have a clear idea of where you're going. If you're commuting to work, you don't give up because there's a detour in the road or you made a wrong turn. You remain thoroughly focused on getting to your destination.

The solution to this dilemma is a commitment to iteration. You have to commit to a locked-in agreement—ahead of time—that no matter what comes of testing the MVP, you will not give up hope. Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plane right into the ground. Instead, they possess a unique combination of perseverance and flexibility. The MVP is just the first step on a journey of learning. Down

Third, entrepreneurs need a personal stake in the outcome of their creations.

The solution to this dilemma is a commitment to iteration. You have to commit to a locked-in agreement—ahead of time—that no matter what comes of testing the MVP, you will not give up hope. Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plane right into the ground. Instead, they possess a unique combination of perseverance and flexibility. The MVP is just the first step on a journey of learning.

If you're commuting to work, you don't give up because there's a detour in the road or you made a wrong turn. You remain thoroughly focused on getting to your destination.

Companies that cannot bring themselves to pivot to a new direction on the basis of feedback from the marketplace can get stuck in the land of the living dead, neither growing enough nor dying, consuming resources and commitment from employees and other stakeholders but not moving ahead.

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

By a declaration, liberty is born. With courage she is nourished, and with unceasing commitment she is guarded.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful

I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.

Only when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, will you be successful.

I will never change

To abandon duty is to destroy that which makes any individual unique and capable of prodigious feats.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might . . .

A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.

Yeah, it's hard to care when you're afraid of getting hurt. You know, the sad part is that when most people promise 'for better or for worse,' they really only mean for the better.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.