Quotes About Commitment

Wenn man zwei Stunden verlobt ist, ist man immer ganz glücklich. Wenigstens denk ich es mir so. " "Und ist es dir denn gar nicht, ja, wie sag ich nur, ein bisschen genant? " "Ja, ein bisschen genant ist es mir, aber doch nicht sehr.

The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job - he should want it more than all things, with a passion surpassing all emotion and probably even all principle.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort

I then held, and now hold, the belief that a man's first duty is to pull his own weight and to take care of those dependent upon him; and I then believed, and now believe, that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and that no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.

We are not building this country of ours for a day. It is to last through the ages.

It is inexcusable to refuse to work, to work slackly or perversely, or to mar the work of others.

Of course, really, those that stayed were entitled to precisely as much honor as those that went.

I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't know whether or not I will keep my word, but my men can tell you that I always do;" whereupon my cow-punchers, hunters, and miners solemnly nodded their heads and commented in chorus, exactly as if in a comic opera, "He always does; he always does!

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.

I then believed, and now believe, that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and that no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.