Quotes About Commitment

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

Its so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

Make the dharma personal, explore it wholeheartedly, and relax.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.

A través de la meditación desarrollamos una lealtad hacia nosotros mismos, que se traduce inmediatamente en lealtad a la propia experiencia vital.

Just prepare well and know what you want to do. Give it your best, but you really don't have a clue what's going to happen.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route, not looking for alternatives, not thinking that there is ample time to do things later.

The word bodhisattva refers to those who have committed themselves to the path of compassion.

To what do we really commit ourselves? Is it to playing it safe and manipulating our life and our whole world, so that it will give us security and confirmation? Or is our commitment to deeper and deeper levels of maitri? The question always remains: In what do we take refuge? Do we take refuge in small, self-satisfied actions, speech, and mind? Or do we take refuge in warriorship, in taking a leap, in going beyond our usual safety zones?

Her feeling for Mr Brooks was so much the most important part of her life that it seemed like something which did not belong to her, but which she had to carry about with her, at work or in her room, there was no difference. She had a kind of affection, too, for the love itself, which was so strong, but maintained itself on so little. There had been a time, not at all long ago, when she hadn't had this responsibility, but it was hard for her to remember how she had felt then.

When they married he wouldn't be able to go on where he was. On the other hand, if she wouldn't have him, he didn't see that he would be able to go on at all.

persevering secretary of the Society for Providing Public Access to Places of Interest and Beauty

It was like one of those terrible sights of the racecourse or the battle field where wallowing living beings persevere dumbly in their duty although mutilated beyond repair.

The real challenge of life was not fulfilling one's dreams, but being willing to give them up for the sake of a greater call.