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The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
-Anon.
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
this is commonly attributed to Abraham Lincoln or Shearson Lehman (American Express) or anon.
-Anon.
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Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
-Proverb
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There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.
-John Adams
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We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd...from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions.
-Sarah Bernhardt
The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt, ch. 9, 1977 edition.
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Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
-Ron Blomberg
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If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
-Joyce Brothers
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You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
-Les Brown
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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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
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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
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We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.
-J. Dabney Day
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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
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The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
-Mack R. Douglas
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
-Peter Drucker
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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
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
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I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, whatever it takes!
-Tom Fatjo
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The uncommitted life isn't worth living.
-Marshall Fishwick
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A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.
-Tom Flores
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The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
-James Garfield
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The resolved mind hath no cares.
-George Herbert
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Books about Commitment
