Quotes About Commitment

You don't just turn up and have a passing game. You can't sit back, you have to be 100 percent concentrated to make it work.

A person who owns property and has a stake in the enterprise is likely to work harder and feel happier and do a better job than a person who doesn

Find something you enjoy doing and give it everything you've got, and the money will take care of itself.

Stocks you trade, it's wives you're stuck with.

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

The practice of shared vision involves the skills of unearthing shared "pictures of the future" that foster genuine commitment and enrollment rather than compliance. In mastering this discipline, leaders learn the counterproductiveness of trying to dictate a vision, no matter how heartfelt.

Si ya no dependen tantas cosas de la política, entonces es lógico esperar que se debilite no solo la voluntad de votar sino también el compromiso de los que siguen participando. Las opciones probablemente serán más volubles y más susceptibles de basarse en factores cortoplacistas. En la práctica esto también significa que los resultados electorales serán cada vez menos predecibles.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

This second step calls one to yield to that local part of the Body of Christ, and to dedicate oneself to that congregation and its work.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Himmler was, as he had always been, merely the most extreme, emotionally committed exponent of the orthodoxy of the master race.

Instead of discussing with myself every morning whether I feel inspired or not, I step into my office every day at nine sharp, open the window and politely ask the muse to enter and kiss me. Sometimes she comes in, more often she does not. But she can never claim that she hasn't found me waiting in the right place.

One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.

I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student. I am going to become a learning machine... Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you.

From chapter on Getting Started at Stanford). Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you.

The fact that you have never betrayed my teachings, and the fact that you swear never to betray them: this is to betray them already.

By exploring how fidelity to God requires an acknowledgement of the provisional nature of our beliefs, 'A/theism' was designed to offer us a greater appreciation of God's greatness, a renewed openness to learning from other people's understanding of God and a deeper commitment to a faith that is enhanced, rather than enslaved, by a particular Christian tradition.

that absolute commitment to God involves a deep and sustained wrestling with God.

In the logic of faith it is only by renouncing the wealth directly, saying, "I do not care about what I get from this sacrifice; all I want is you," that we discover the wealth indirectly.

El amor ama las cosas difíciles.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.

We make choices to trust God, to wait on God, to obey God, to stick with God, to remain faithful when everything in us wants to quit and run.