Quotes About Commitment

Once you start a war, you have to win.

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.

I shall act as I think my duty requires.

Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home

He who wishes to fight must first count the cost

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.

Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about the ability, courage, and commitment to end the war within oneself and not quit until the job is done.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.

I will stand off the forces of the entire country here... and die a resplendent death.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!