Quotes About Commitment

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

The dedicated life is the life worth living.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well, I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and boughr jewelry.

A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure.

When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

You can't ring the bells and, at the same time, walk in the procession.

Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest, and they are rare.

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations, or avoiding them.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.