Quotes About Commitment

love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb.

IBM stands for three things: the dignity of the individual, excellence, and service.

ingenuity, his resourcefulness. PC work is treating employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best part—their hearts and minds.

It also requires independent will, the power to do something when you don't want to do it, to be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

El poder de comprometernos con nosotros mismos y de mantener esos compromisos es la esencia del desarrollo de los hábitos básicos de la efectividad

One of the fundamental problems in organizations, including families, is that people are not committed to the determinations of other people for their lives.

By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods. The

awareness—making promises, setting goals, and being true to them—

Question 1: What one thing could you do (something you aren't doing now) that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life?

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives.

For thirty days work only in your Circle of Influence. Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. Inside-out

Now no one can be the slave of two masters

A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.

nothing takes the place of persistence.

Concentrate on one task at a time and devote your full attention to it. Trying to accomplish two things at once usually produced double mediocrity. Something well done was something done with dedication.

Right, wrong, doesn't matter. Just do something.

He who runs after two hares at the same time, catches neither.

Women seemed to marry a man expecting him to change, but he doesn't. Men marry a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

The good news is that Christ frees us from the need to obnoxiously focus on our goodness, our commitment, and our correctness. Religious has made us obsessive almost beyond endurance. Jesus invited us to a dance...and we've turned in into a march of soldiers, always checking to see if we're doing it right and are in step and in line with the other soldiers. We know a dance would be more fun, but we believe we must go through hell to get to heaven, so we keep marching.

People who do "lowly" jobs with love and energy find themselves being promoted and offered other "better" jobs very quickly. Because they understand what Robert Frost meant when he said, "The way out is through.

The Pro coach knows that being uncomfortable is the only way to grow. And because they create such powerful agreements, their clients never miss or are late for a session.

Motivation requires a calm, centered leader who is focused on one thing, and only one thing.

I am glad you make a fresh beginning daily; there is no better means of attaining… than by continually beginning again.