Quotes About Commitment

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

Owe no man anything.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

With renunciation life begins.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily.

Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. Put some in!

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player.

He did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.