Quotes about commitment

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

— Barbara De Angelis

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

— Ron Blomberg

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

— Les Brown

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

— Thomas Carlyle

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

— Marcus T. Cicero

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

— Robert Collier

If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.

— Robert Conklin

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

— Russell Crowe

We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.

— J. Dabney Day

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

— Mack R. Douglas

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

— Peter F. Drucker

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, whatever it takes!

— Tom Fatjo

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

— Marshall Fishwick

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

— Tom Flores

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

— David Lloyd George

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The resolved mind hath no cares.

— George Herbert

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind -- not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement -- but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

— William E. Holler

If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.

— Bruce Jenner

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

— John F. Kennedy

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

— Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

— Vince Lombardi

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

— Vince Lombardi

Resolve and thou art free.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you.

— Orison Swett Marden

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

— Orison Swett Marden

This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor, It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure... Only a masterly call, a masterly will, a supreme effort, intense and persistent application, can unlock the door to your inner treasure and release your highest powers.

— Orison Swett Marden

Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

— Orison Swett Marden

Decide that you really want to achieve the goal...

— Robert J. Mckain

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

— Golda Meir

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

— John Naisbitt

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

— Martina Navratilova

Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

— Spanish Proverb

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

— Cardinal De Richelieu

There's no abiding success without commitment.

— Anthony Robbins

There's always a way -- if you're committed.

— Anthony Robbins

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

— Anthony Robbins

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

— George Santayana

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.

— Mark Twain

Reality forms around a commitment.

— Source Unknown

Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.

— Source Unknown

A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises.

— Source Unknown

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

— Dick Vermeil

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

— Denis Waitley

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

— Faye Wattleton.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

— Brigham Young

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' -the pig was 'committed

— Source Unknown

Without engagement, there can be no marriage.

— Leslie Miklosy