Quotes About Commitment

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it, I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

When you're a professional, you come back no matter what happened the day before.

People with good intentions never give up!

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

What we love to do we find time to do.

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't get the fourth without it.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

I was told to be accurate, be brief, and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.

To become a father is not hard, to be a father is, however.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.