Quotes About Commitment

Because, the moment you chose to start a small business, Sarah, you unwittingly chose to play a significantly larger game than any game you had ever played before.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day. Rollo May

The game has to be real. You have to mean it. The game is a measure of you.

It is—first, last, and always—about how you act.

How does one come to the point in his or her life when he or she is not only ready but eager and willing—however terrifying the prospect might be—to self-execute such a leap of faith without any guarantees that it will do any good?

And that was the second thing that surprised me when I came to work here," the Manager continued. "How seriously the Boss took the operation of this hotel.

It was as though the hotel was more than just a hotel to him. "It was like the hotel was an expression of who he was, a symbol of what he believed in.

What was important was how seriously I took to playing the game he had created here.

Your job is to commit to the process of becoming an entrepreneur and then to practice what entrepreneurs do so that entrepreneurship can find you when you've practiced enough to be ready.

It can become that place where words such as integrity, intention, commitment, vision, and excellence can be used as action steps in the process of producing a worthwhile result. What

Work is done for work's sake alone, forsaking any higher purpose

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and quantity of practice time.

Having talent and not putting it on the line is just like not having it and desperately wanting to be recognized

Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in the cause you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

Carry on. If you're going to do something, just do it.

A growing body of work in social psychology offers a possible explanation for this commercialization effect. These studies highlight the difference between intrinsic motivations (such as moral conviction or interest in the task at hand) and external ones (such as money or other tangible rewards). When people are engaged in an activity they consider intrinsically worthwhile, offering them money may weaken their motivation by depreciating or crowding out their intrinsic interest or commitment.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

Failure I can accept, what I can not accept is not trying

I can accept failure but cannot accept trying

I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Once you join the team, you live at a certain standard that I play the game and I wasn't going to take anything less. When people see this, they gonna say, He wasn't really a nice guy. He may have been a tyrant. Well, that's you, because you never won anything. I wanted to win, but I wanted them to win and be a part of it as well.