Quotes About Commitment

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Do the BEST with your Life for the REST of your Life!

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Take into your new sphere of labour, where you also mean to lay down your life, that simple charm, Love, and your life-work must succeed. You can take nothing greater, you need take nothing less. It is not worth while going if you take anything less.

It is by constant and conscientious attention to daily duties that thoroughness and conscientiousness and honorableness are imbedded in our beings.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough;I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

Our employees are like extended members of our family.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I cannot say that it was hard work. No work with interest is ever hard. I always am certain of results. They always come if you work hard enough. But it was a very great thing to have my wife even more confident than I was. She has always been that way.

And when a man is really at work, he needs no title. His work honours him.

given a good idea to start with, it is better to concentrate on perfecting it than to hunt around for a new idea. One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle.

I think it should not be otherwise in industry. The men are there to get the greatest possible amount of work done and to receive the highest possible pay. If each man were permitted to act in his own way, production would suffer and therefore pay would suffer. Any one who does not like to work in our way may always leave.

The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.

He began work on the second volume on 3 April 1753, and seemed newly energized. 'O God who hast hitherto supported me,' he could write in his diary, 'enable me to proceed in this labour & in the Whole task of my present state', so that 'when I shall render up at the last day an account of the talent committed to me I may receive pardon for the sake of Jesus Christ'.14

Each of us should do something every day That we do not want to do But we know we should do, To strengthen our backbone And put iron in our soul.

I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

Germany achieved unification as an affirmation of liberal democracy; it reaffirmed its commitment to European unity as a project of common values and shared development.