Quotes About Commitment

The advice of Confucius to his disciples: "Eat at your own table as you would at the table of a king," emphasises the immeasurable importance of little things, as also does that aphorism of another great teacher, Buddha: "If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it vigorously." To neglect small tasks, or to execute them in a perfunctory or slovenly manner, is a mark of weakness and folly.

Maybe most the important thing I learned was one thing he said to me toward the end: "Are you willing to do whatever it takes to make the thing that excites you come true? Are you fearless?

Doing my best in any situation is all I can do. If I worry about it while I'm doing it, I won't do my best.

The muse, or the inspiration, does not just show up, it requires sweat as an offering.

Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.

entrepreneurs can't use the excuse that "I don't have time, I'm running a business." This is your business.

Don't forget to always give extra. A simple effort will get you a customer for life.

The typical answer is "I study four hours a day.

When you don't choose, you excuse.

It's not about yes or no. It's about two people falling in love.

I am not available 99.9% of the time. But I always make myself available for people who I look up to as mentors.

Always over-promise and over-deliver. Sometimes people hate that. They want to under promise and over deliver. Don't do that

If you want someone to spend one hour of their life helping you, then you need to spend 10 hours of your life, at least, helping them IN ADVANCE and with NO PRESSURE.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.

He laughed. 'Baby. Baby. Baby. I love you. And I'm going to build us a table and a whole lot of folks are going to be eating off it for a long, long time to come.

One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself - that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity.

Don't think I don't know you love me. You believe we going to make it?

And: the only way anything ever gets done is when you make up your mind to do it.

People find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.