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Quotes About Commitment

The Four Commitments. I need them to commit to: 1. Let go of the past. 2. Tell the truth. 3. Be supportive and helpful—not cynical or negative. 4. Pick something to improve yourself—so everyone is focused more on "improving" than "judging.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Just because people understand what to do doesn't ensure that they will actually do it.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Overcommitment can be as serious an obstacle to change as believing that you don't need fixing or that your flaws are part of the reason you're successful.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
If you know what matters to you, it's easier to commit to change. If you can't identify what matters to you, you won't know when it's being threatened. And in my experience, people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Sometimes you suffer for the things that are important to you.
~ Unknown
La cuestion esta en decidirse en algo, alguna vez. The gist is in deciding on something, at some time.
~ Unknown
If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.
~ Martha Beck
they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.
~ Martha Beck
Today is the first day of the rest of my push-up.
~ Martha Bolton
I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.
~ Martha Bolton
I like the place because, first and foremost, the beer is of excellent quality, and secondly, because the name is a reminder that greatness often has a cost. Few people accomplish anything of merit without sacrifice." Shay shrugged. "True enough, but some people don't seek greatness." "Alas, sometimes greatness is thrust upon people.
~ Unknown
When you want something, you make the time. Not excuses.
~ Unknown
I think I thought I could I can but not without you.
~ Unknown
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it
~ Martha Gellhorn
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
~ Martha Graham
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
~ Martha Graham
A dancer isn't great because of their technique...they're great because of their passion.
~ Martha Graham
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
~ Martha Graham
It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous.
~ Martha Graham
No artist is pleased.... there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
~ Martha Graham
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
~ Martha Graham
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
~ Martha Graham
The only sin is mediocrity.
~ Martha Graham