Quotes About Commitment

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Keep your promises to yourself.

I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame, you just do it.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

You must have discipline to have fun.

When I saw something that needed doing, I did it.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.

He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.

He profits most who serves best.