Quotes About Commitment

If you are going to be successful, you must develop persistence. How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that your must define your purpose.

I recognize that winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Motivation doesn't last, neither does shower. That why we need it everyday

Practice is simply preparation for success.

Peak performance is dependent on passion, grit, determination, and a willingness to do something poorly until you can do it well.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to be the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person. On the other hand, if you marry the right person and treat them wrong, you certainly will have ended up marrying the wrong person.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Much about success is just the result of simply the ability to follow up, follow through, and finish what we started.

Love doesn't happen because we use flowery words or express good intentions. It becomes real in our difficult choices every day.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."—G. K. CHESTERTON

Great doors of opportunity swing on the tiny hinges of obedience." —IKE REIGHARD

Like sterling silver, love will tarnish unless it is polished with daily applications of interest, involvement, and expressions of love.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."—ABRAHAM LINCOLN

duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do things beautifully.

Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.

Of a promise," Raamo said. "I dreamed of a promise that has always been, and always will be.

I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.

Music was important. Football was the easy part.

If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?