Quotes About Commitment

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

When a man's willing and eager, God joins in.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.

Irrevocable as a haircut.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

My whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me.

You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other, and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse, it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

Excellence costs a great deal.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

I work every day - or at least I force myself into 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 earn the fourth without it.