Quotes About Commitment

For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live.

To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.

Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise, one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

So long as I believe I have to do certain things, I will just go right ahead. That's how I run my life.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

He who begins many things finishes but few.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life.

If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.

I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly.

What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.