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Quotes About Commitment

Be an all-out, not a hold out.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
A major key to success in this life, to attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and throw all there is of yourself into your studies or any project in which you are engaged. In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you've got.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
It is always too soon to quit.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Get interested in something! Absolutely enthralled in something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The man who is out doing something isn't tired. If you're not getting into good causes, no wonder you're tired. You're disintegrating. You're deteriorating. You're dying on the vine. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. You don't have time to think about yourself and get bogged down in your emotional difficulties.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
To meet and know God people must therefore begin with a deep commitment to serve life as they meet it because this is where God is, at the heart of all life's intersections.
~ Norman Wirzba
What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
~ Norton Juster
Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered," she went on with sudden serious sweetness, "but nobody could ever count my love for you. Shall I put the chops on, Jim?
~ O. Henry
When the hour comes it is to remind him of a story. Synopsis: A French girl says to her suitor: "Did you ask my father for my hand at nine o'clock this morning, as you said you would?" "I did not," he. replies. "At nine o'clock I was fighting a duel with swords in the Bois de Boulogne." "Coward!" she hisses.
~ O. Henry
When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
~ O. Henry
Give me a cuckoo clock and a Sep Winner's Self-Instructor for the Banjo, and I'll join you.
~ O. Henry
La primera nota caraterítica del amor es la exlusividad... El amor es individual o más exactamente, interpersonal: queremos únicamente a una persona y le pedimos a esa persona que nos quiera con el mismo afecto exclusivo.
~ Octavio Paz
El amor es una apuesta, insensata, por la libertad. No la mía, la ajena.
~ Octavio Paz
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
~ Og Mandino
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
~ Og Mandino
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
~ Og Mandino
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
~ Og Mandino
It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
~ Og Mandino
I will form good habits and become their slave.
~ Og Mandino
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.
~ Og Mandino
El éxito no esperará. Si demoro, será como una novia que se casará con otro y la perderé para siempre. Ahora es el momento oportuno, éste es el lugar, yo soy el hombre. Procederé ahora mismo.
~ Og Mandino
Today I shall give myself in sacrifice and work; for tomorrow I will have nothing to give and there will be none to receive.
~ Og Mandino
Also, he set great store on a man doing right by his family.
~ Olive Ann Burns
Jesus said take up your cross and follow Me, but He didn't ast us to go out and nail ourselves to a board.
~ Olive Ann Burns