Quotes About Commitment

Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Triumph could not be partial. It was complete, total, and undeniable—or it was nothing.

Get up early and go to bed late.

Service always outranked wealth; loyalty always outranked payments.

drowned in the sea of annihilation." Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

RULE 2. Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.

The boss would be present at the beginning of each session, laying out the rationale for the Work-Out. He or she would also commit to two things: to give an on-the-spot yes or no to 75 percent of the recommendations that came out of the session, and to resolve the remaining 25 percent within thirty days. The boss would then disappear until the end of the session, so as not to stifle open discussion, returning only at the end to make good on his or her promise.*

La gente trabaja todo el día, todos los días, intentando mejorar sus organizaciones y sus vidas. Intentando ayudar a sus familias, a sus empleados y a sus colegas, a sus clientes y a las comunidades en las que operan.

Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.

If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

Her always is mine

No two sacrifices are the same, and yet all are, in the end. It is the commitment to belong, wholly, to that which claims one.

I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace.

He had never been one to care about appearances or heroics or receiving accolades for his deeds. I daresay keeping Phèdre in one piece had kept him too busy; and then later, protecting me, too.

I turned in his arms, and whispered, "Joscelin Verreuil, I would die without you." "Probably." He smiled again. "Of melodrama, if naught else.

Mayhap Bao was right, and I did fall in love as easily as other people fall out of a boat; but I loved in earnest.

As gloriously, splendidly, intractably single-minded as he was, loving him was like grasping a knife, a clean white blaze of pain that kept me anchored to myself.

I had Joscelin, my Perfect Companion, the compass by which I fixed my heart. No one could ask more.

Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years! Jen said grimly. Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth!

Remember, the most important thing in the world is to have a man who loves you.

he's only got to look at me to see he comes first. First and last and all the stages in between. I

I know this isn't easy for anyone - nothing worth doing is every easy Brenda to Maisie Dobbs

It's not enough to say that you want equality, Ro. What do you intend to do about it?

over several weeks, so during that