Quotes About Commitment

Passion is the enemy of efficiency.

Are you backing out, Mulch? Or is this just the usual moaning?

If you wish to be a writer, write.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

There is no shame in making an honest effort.

There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes.

In short, we do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it.

Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself. abide by them as they were laws, and as if you would be guilty of impiety by violating any of them. Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

Most people are impulsive, however, and having committed to the thing, they persist, just making more confusion for themselves and others until it all end in mutual recrimination.

Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it. Pay no attention to whatever people might say; this no longer should influence you.

I cannot call somebody 'hard-working' knowing only that they read and write. Even if 'all night long' is added, I cannot say it – not until I know the focus of all this energy.

If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.

You would fain be victor at the Olympic Games, you say. Yes, but weigh the conditions, weigh the consequences; then and then only, lay to your hand-if it be for your profit. You must live by rule, submit to diet, abstain from dainty meats, exercise your body perforce at stated hours, in heat or in cold; drink no cold water, nor, it may be, wine. In a word, you must surrender yourself wholly to your trainer, as though to a physician.

Faithfulness is the antidote to bitterness and confusion.

Settle on the type of person you want to be and stick to it, whether alone or in company.

If then you desire (aim at) such great things, remember that you must not (attempt to) lay hold of them with a small effort; but you must leave alone some things entirely, and postpone others for the present.

Whatever your vocation, pursue it wholeheartedly. Consider, choose, and commit.

you should not wait for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do your duty; but do good of your own accord.

If you resist it a whole month, offer God a sacrifice, because the vice begins to weaken from day one, until it is wiped out altogether.

Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it.

remain steadfast in pursuing your mission, always willing to shed distractions.

Avoid taking oaths

Don't give in to second thoughts, because no one who wavers will make progress