Commitment Quotes
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The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.
Stephen Covey
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Most of us are now free to walk away from our marital commitments more easily than from any other contract in our lives.
William J Doherty
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.
Terence McKenna
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Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It’s not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It’s not so much about what you lose; it’s about what you gain.
Chip Ingram
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We express America's values from the State Department. We represent the American people. We represent America's values, our commitment to freedom, our commitment to equal treatment to people the world over. And that message has never changed.
Rex W. Tillerson
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A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks.
Mick Foley
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The reality is being an Olympic windsurfer is bloody hard work, and it is a huge commitment.
Nick Dempsey
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I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.
Michael Heizer
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I know I'm a really good drummer, but there are tons of great musicians out here and I was just really worried about what the fuck I was gonna do. It was an era in my life when I was dating again and you know, being in a band is like being involved with a girlfriend because there's a lot of time, a lot of commitment.
Paddy Boom Scissor Sisters
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Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
Stephen Covey
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Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.
Thomas Kuhn
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A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.
Thomas Sowell
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The party's got to see itself as being one public service organization in a very competitive field, all of whom are competing for the allegiance and commitment and brains of the next generation. They've got to be big enough to reach out to those groups and say "come on in."
Michael Ignatieff
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Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.
Stephen Lang
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You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.
Seth Godin
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If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
Seth Godin
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I know the commitment that TV requires but it's nice to come to work and have fun.
Michael Ealy
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Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.
Bob Proctor
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So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.
Tony Blair
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Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.
Wendy Wasserstein
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If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.
Stephen Covey
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A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
Francis Chan
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That was a level of commitment I’d never be able to understand, and I wished there was something out there I felt so strongly about I’d willingly die for it.
Bill Konigsberg