Quotes About Commitment

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

So, what counts is that you think this is the best choice. Once you've decided that, you should chase it down with everything you've got.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

man is not a man, until he stands for somthing good

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

There is never enough time unless you are serving it.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now.

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Her life's work was a fantastical pipe dream to the backers who had sanctioned the project but were now cutting back on what they considered frivolous expenditures.

Even if we had gone away together when I wanted us to, we would've been together for a year, maybe two. But sooner or later, other people would've found a way to wedge us apart.

Wherever you went, I'd go with you,' I decided. 'Though you'd soon get bored with me.

Only one person cared if I lived or died. He'd done so much for me in the past and now it was my turn to do something for him.

Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.

The gods never ask for the promise of success, only that we try.