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Quotes About Commitment

But you, Catullus, be resolved and firm.
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
~ Galen Rowell
I hadn't planned on climbing mountains. But now that you're in the mountains, be ready to suffer.
~ Gao Xingjian
An eternal life shared with another grows less attractive if the other is off his nut.
~ Gardner Dozois
To disdain the moral pronouncements of hypocrites; to be true to my word; to always do what I promise, no more and no less. To hone my talent and wield it like a beacon in a darkening world.
~ Gardner R. Dozois
Are you going to marry her?" I would know such a thing as that," Clarence says, "only well after the fact.
~ Garret Freymann-Weyr
You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.
~ Garrett Camp
Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
~ Garry Shandling
You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.
~ Garth Ennis
Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.
~ Garth Nix
So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.
~ Garth Nix
To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.
~ Garth Stein
To finish the race first, you must first finish the race.
~ Garth Stein
Get busy mother f---er!
~ Garth Stein
the race is long—to finish first, first you must finish.
~ Garth Stein
Yes: the race is long-to finish first, first you must finish. ~p206
~ Garth Stein
Racers are often called selfish and egotistical. I myself have called race car drivers selfish; I was wrong. To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.
~ Garth Stein
Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness.
~ Garth Stein
if money affects who you love, then it isn't really love.
~ Garth Stein
Truth, honesty, integrity, he said. "And loyalty. Above truth, honesty, and integrity, I would demand loyalty. Loyalty above all. You have to swear an oath." "I can never put loyalty above truth honesty and integrity. . . don't demand loyalty over truth. Don't ever do that.
~ Garth Stein
I'll return your love, " she says."And I won't look at you differently. And I'll always be there to put something under your head so you don't hurt yourself.
~ Garth Stein
The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish.
~ Garth Stein
A race car driver must be very selfish. It is a cold truth: even his family must came second to the race.
~ Garth Stein
To finish first, first you must finish
~ Garth Stein