~ Commitment Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

General Sir John Monash

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

George S. Patton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow to overcome inertia.

Mary Parker Follett

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It seems safe to say that significant discovery really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

Mary Henle

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things who is a 'middle-of-the-roader' in everything and I will show you someone who is insecure.

G. Aiken Taylor

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

Duke P. Kahanamoku

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Louisa May Alcott

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say 'I used everything you gave me'.

Erma Bombeck

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Love me please; I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do I give up my whole self to it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception and except under very special circumstances it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

John Foster Dulles

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too.

Theresa Helburn

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never for whatever reason turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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