Quotes About Commitment

Marriage...it's not a word, it's a sentence.

Unfortunately, there is no contemporary history of Rome prior to about 200 BC, when centuries of oral traditions were first committed to writing.

A thin line separates success from failure, the great companies from the ordinary ones. Below that line lies excuse making, blaming others, confusion, and an attitude of helplessness, while above that line we find a sense of reality, ownership, commitment, solutions to problems, and determined action. While losers languish Below The Line, preparing stories that explain why past efforts went awry, winners reside Above The Line, powered by commitment and hard work.

Think as if your life depended on it.

the Solve It step, think as if your life depended on it. While your life may not be at risk, your happiness is.

Do It step and achieving what you want: Trying is just not in the equation. It's all about doing.

The more you clarify your position and defend it against attack, the more committed you become to it. The

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

Baseball writers develop a great attachment for the Brooklyn club if long exposed

Do you honestly think I am going to let you die? I need you-as many of you as I can save.

It would seem we have small chance but to be dutiful in the end.

too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.

Marriage is like death, only happens once.

Parents are as confused about by life as anyone else. But they try very hard.

A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. 'I shall be yours,' she told him, 'when you have spent a hundred nights waiting for me, sitting on a stool, in my garden, beneath my window.' But on the ninety-ninth night, the mandarin stood up, put his stool under his arm, and went away.

Un mandarín estaba enamorado de una cortesana. «Seré tuya», dijo ella, «cuando hayas pasado cien noches esperándome sentado sobre un banco, en mi jardín, bajo mi ventana». Pero, en la nonagesimonovena noche, el mandarín se levanta, toma su banco bajo el brazo y se va.

Our plan is one, one and again one alone—to reach the pole. For that goal, I have decided to throw everything else aside.

If you're going to do something, I believe, you should do it well. You should sweat over it and make sure it's strong and accurate and beautiful and you should be proud of it

The world is glutted with magnificent three-page starts, and the road to hell is paved with unfinished manuscripts.

All of the valuable writing I have done in the last ten years has been done in the first twenty minutes after the first time I wanted to leave the room.

The four to six young aides usually slept in one room, often two to a bed, then worked long days in a single room with chairs crowded around small wooden tables. Washington typically kept a small office off to the side. During busy periods, the aides sometimes wrote and copied one hundred letters per day, an exhausting grind

The young man who had worked so hard to ingratiate himself with his superiors in the British Army was suddenly breathing fire. Washington was always reluctant to sign on to any cause, because when he did so, his commitment was total.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Neatly dressed and well groomed, Rockefeller was the first to arrive at and the last to leave work each day.