Quotes About Commitment

The Japanese believe building a great organization is like growing a tree; it takes twenty-five to fifty years.

It's just not possible any longer to figure it out from the top, and have everyone else following the orders of the "grand strategist." The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.

By the time they are 30, a few are on the fast track and the rest 'put in their time' to do what matters to them on the weekend. They lose the commitment, the sense of mission, and the excitement with which they started their careers. We get damn little of their energy and almost none of their spirit.

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

building an environment of reflectiveness starts with our own willingness to open ourselves, to be vulnerable, to be "exposed," as Saillant put it. This is unlikely to happen in any organizational environment that does not have a deep commitment to helping people grow, and to creating the trust and spirit of mutuality this requires.

Shared visions emerge from personal visions. This is how they derive their energy and how they foster commitment. As

The discipline of personal mastery starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us, of living our lives in the service of our highest aspirations.

That American [Philip Kapleau] was asking us whether it is possible for him to attain enlightenment in one week of sesshin. Tell him this for me: don't say days, weeks, years, or even lifetimes. Tell him to vow to attain enlightenment though it take the infinite, the boundless, the incalculable future.4

That's the only way to do it—go.

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It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

If you are not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

Let us all unite, and...declare that we will not leave our own country...this is our...country; ...our forefathers have planted trees in America for us and we intend to stay and eat the fruit.

She changed. But then you do, don't you? Otherwise what's the point of getting married? If it doesn't change you, I mean.

there was not one point of contact between those at home and those who had done what we had done, but we had done it for them.

In other words, the claim I believe in God is nothing but a lie if it is not manifest in our lives, because one only believes in God insofar as one loves.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

If the owners are cashing out, there's no reason for you to be cashing in.

A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.

To my daughter, without whose help this book would have been completed a long time back.

Hey, dummy, you might want to take the time and learn to fly before you do this again!

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life and God shows up in it, and then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what is more important to you–the dream or him.

What is "walking with God?" Simple. Doing what he asks you to do each and every day. Living in active relationship with him. Filling your mind with his Word, and letting that Word penetrate every waking moment.