Commitment Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose–and commit myself to–what is best for me.”
– Paulo Coelho 

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
– Paulo Coelho 

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
– Peter F. Drucker

“I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it’s not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.”
– Philip Green

“The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.”
– Phyllis McGinley

“If I’m going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don’t do it at all.”
– Prince Alwaleed Bin

“It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.”
– Ralph Ellison

“I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.”
– Ralph Nader

“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, — ‘Let there be truth between us two forever more.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.”
– Ray Kroc

“We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.”
– Ray Kroc

“Encourage your people to be committed to a project rather than just be involved in it.”
– Richard Pratt

“Our most productive investment remains our people. It is through the dedication, skills and initiative of our people that Visy Industries has prospered and will continue to move ahead.”
– Richard Pratt

“Visy Industries’ past, present and future are linked by a commitment to growth, through meeting our customers’ needs and the wise use and reuse of scarce resources.”
– Richard Pratt

“Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”
– Robert Sternberg

“Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” 
– Roger Staubach

“The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.”
– Rollo May

“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.”
– Rollo May

“Competing in sports has taught me that if I’m not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.”
– Ron Blomberg

“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

“My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.”
– Sakip Sabanci

“Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.”
– Sam Walton

“In order to ‘hold fast’ to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.”
– Sheena Iyenga

“I’m convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It’s a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.”
– Stephen Covey

“Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.”
– Stephen Covey

“People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.”
– Stephen Gregg

“Commitment turns a promise into reality with words that speak boldly of your intentions and actions that speak louder than words.”
– Steve Brunkhorst

“I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that’s where my loyalty should be forever. I want to be an “employee” on the company data base. I won’t engineer, I’d rather be basically retired, due to my family.”
– Steve Wozniak

“You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.” 
– Summ Nunn

“I think women have proved themselves beyond a shadow of doubt that they are as capable and as confident in delivering results. The “B” word.. babies or biology is a complicated one. Because it doesn’t mean that women can’t do the work, it means that women have a point, a period in their life of maybe.. depending on how many children they have, of 5 to 10 years where they have a lessened amount of availability. And in many many corporate settings you have to be available for face time in the office and travel. And when you make the choice to have a kid you also make the choice to be not available as much.”
– Suzy Welch

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