Quotes About Commitment

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

Understanding gets compliance. Only belief gets commitment.

There are many reasons why people might only go through the motions. Two of the most common are that they do not believe a course of action is feasible or that they do not believe it makes sense.

Most of them kept going because they had a job to do, and they were the only ones who could do it. The closest thing to heroism was displaying humour:

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

5. Once there is "a flavor of certitude," says Bede, then "pray for the courage to take action." It's not uncommon for us to get to certitude and then realize that we don't really want to take the action. We're

We work first because we have to work. Then because we want to work. Then because we love to work. Then the work simply does us. Difficult at the beginning. Inevitable at the end.

I must concentrate all of my energies on the enfranchisement of my own sex! She had named and claimed her calling. Here is concentration of purpose. This declaration, as we shall see, unified her energy in extraordinary ways.

self-dedication is too small a work. It inevitably becomes a prison.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.

I asked Carlson what he did in those early years to get people's buy-in. Carlson says he included everyone but he worked mainly with the early adopters. "You never get a 100 percent," he says. "We focused on the people who wanted to work this way. You can't convert everyone on day one. That takes years.

Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.

The obsession was gone. We liked each other, even loved each other. And our sex was still good, but the hunger was gone. Either it just wore out or we wore each other out. A passion like that pushes everything else out of its path. You can't be married and have jobs and children and work and write and have something like an emotional bubonic plague.

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse.

All I wanted was a job like a book so good I'd be finishing it for the rest of my life.

plan your work and work your plan" "where there is a will, there is a way

he never requires more than I am able to give, and what he does require of me is always appropriate to my knowledge and circumstances....My obligation is to give all I have, not all someone else has, to be as good as I can be, not as good as someone else is.

That is why enduring to the end is the fifth principle of the gospel. Daily, our question shouldn't be "Have I made it to the kingdom yet?" but rather, "Do I still want to stay?

What's most important is having the conviction and vision to move toward what you want to create day after day, year after year, decade after decade.

People often ask me: "Oh, how do you find the time to write books?" I say: "You never find it. You won't find it. You have to create it.

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.