Quotes About Commitment

Anything's worth working for if you want it enough.

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage.

When we said we were going to do something "directly," which is pronounced "dreckly," we meant that we were going to get to it sooner or later, one of these days, maybe never, and please don't ask again.

We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." —Archilochus

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

If the best in the world are stretching their asses off in order to get strong, why aren't you?

If you can't see yourself working with someone for life, don't work with them for a day.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." –Steve Jobs

Busy is a decision." Here's why: Of the many, many excuses people use to rationalize why they can't do something, the excuse "I am too busy" is not only the most inauthentic, it is also the laziest. I don't believe in "too busy." Like I said, busy is a decision. We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we are too busy, it is shorthand for "not important enough.

The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. —ROBERT FROST,

But I will say this: the more clear I am about what my goals are, the more easily I can say no.

Dice que la clave del éxito es: "Sé tan bueno que no puedan ignorarte"».

This is another one that took me a long time to learn. Starting something doesn't automatically justify finishing it.

Jack used to say it's okay to take a day off from working out. But on that day, you're not allowed to eat.

Ésa es la máxima responsabilidad. Asúmela por completo».

What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?

Am I going be the kind of guy who doesn't exercise ever? Or not? And if the answer is 'not,' then why not right now?

The first is to push yourself harder than you believe you're capable of. You'll find new depth inside yourself. The second is to put yourself in groups who share difficulties, discomfort. We used to call it 'shared privation.' You'll find that when you have been through that kind of difficult environment, that you feel more strongly about that which you're committed to. And finally, create some fear and make individuals overcome it.

Once You Have Some Success—If It's Not a "Hell, Yes!" It's a "No

Amelia loves doing training runs in the rain and cold, as she knows her competition is probably opting out. This is an example of "rehearsing the worst-case scenario" to become more resilient

The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting." This famous line from Walt Disney on willpower cannot be more true