Quotes About Commitment

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Men must try and try again.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Loving is half of believing.

Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.

You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love, they have always been in love, although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don't talk about it ... do it.

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.