Quotes About Commitment

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

All of his life had been about making sure I kept mine.

One such father, decades ago now, John Quinn, a student at Humboldt State College in Arcata, California, made newspaper headlines when he chained himself to his laboring wife in order to foil the hospital ban on his presence. His explanation is a classical example of the increased awareness of the younger generation: "I love my wife. I feel it's my moral right as a husband and father to be there.

Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.

If you do everything, you'll win

if one characteristic of Lyndon Johnson was a boundless ambition, another was a willingness, on behalf of that ambition, to make efforts that were also without bounds.

What convinces is conviction. You simply have to believe in the argument you are advancing; if you don't, you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there.

on the town site of Omaha, then a community of cotton tents and shanties, where lots were being offered to anyone willing to build on them. They refused this offer and pressed on to their final

Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you through.

In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are supreme.

It's not that heroes have no fear; it's just that they understand what it takes, to get the job done!!

persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.

Once we have made a choice or taken a stand, we will encounter personal and interpersonal pressures to behave consistently with that commitment. Those pressures will cause us to respond in ways that justify our earlier decision.

Las empresas mejoran la probabilidad de que una persona se presente a una reunión o a un acto si, al convocarlo por teléfono, en lugar de decirle al final de la llamada: «Le apuntamos en la lista de asistentes. ¡Gracias!», utilizan la siguiente frase: «Le apuntamos en la lista de asistentes, ¿de acuerdo?

Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. —ROBERT CIALDINI B

Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. —ROBERT CIALDINI

Parte de su fenomenal éxito se debía a su infatigable capacidad de trabajo y compromiso, pero no todo. Según los cronistas de aquel triunfo, Feldman nunca presionaba para lograr una venta a los potenciales clientes que se mostraban reticentes. En lugar de ello, introducía un toque sutil (y astuto) en su discurso que los guiaba con suavidad hacia esa decisión.

There is an obligation to give, an obligation to receive, and an obligation to repay.

Obviously, horse-race bettors are not alone in their willingness to believe in the correctness of a difficult choice, once made.

Notice that all of the foot-in-the-door experts seem to be excited about the same thing: You can use small commitments to manipulate a person's self-image; you can use them to turn citizens into "public servants," prospects into "customers," prisoners into "collaborators." And once you've got a man's self-image where you want it, he should comply naturally with a whole range of your requests that are consistent with this view of himself.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Or, at least, so goes a frequently heard quotation attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Those who don't know how to get people to say yes soon fall away; those who do, stay and flourish.

Not all commitments affect self-image, however. There are certain conditions that should be present for a commitment to be effective in this way: they should be active, public, effortful, and freely chosen.