Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Commitment

Commitment

Always remember the distinction between contribution and commitment. Take the matter of bacon and eggs. The chicken makes a contribution. The pig makes a commitment.--John Mack Carter
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.--Murray Kempton ("Oer Moor and Fen" Part of Our Time)
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.--Mary Catherine Bateson
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.-- Howard Thurman
Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.--James Womack
Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.--Robert Terwilliger
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal--a commitment to excellence--that will enable you to attain the success you seek.--Mario Andretti
Everyone should intend to do the right thing, but commitments should be made only when unconditional, single-minded dedication can be employed. Much disappointment is caused by the confusion of these two words.--Greg Henry Quinn (365 Meditations for Teachers)
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.--Lou Holtz
Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.--Vince Lombardi
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.--Ralph Ellison
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.--Stephen R. Covey (Seven Habits of Highly Effective People)
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.--Barbra Streisand (People Magazine, May 31, 1993)
The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.--Ross Parmenter ("The Doctor and the Cleaning Woman" The Plant in My Window)
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.--Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Flight to Arras)
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.--Peter Drucker
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
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.--Bronislaw Malinowski
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.--Margaret Halsey (No Laughing Matter)
Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you cn sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.--Margaret Halsey
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.--Ross Perot
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.--Margaret Thatcher
The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.--Lyndon B. Johnson (Speech, 3 Aug 1967)
There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.--Warren Beatty
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.--James Baldwin ("My Dungeon Shook" The Fire Next Time)
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.--Jean Annouilh (Antigone)
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes...but no plans.--Peter Drucker
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. 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 and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.--W. H. Murray
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.--Ambrose Bierce
When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.--Nancy Coey