~ Commitment and Belief Quotes ~

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[highlight-text]I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.

William Lloyd Garrison

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[highlight-text]The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[highlight-text]The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul to either conquer or perish with honor is the secret of victory.

George S. Patton

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[highlight-text]Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

Saint Margaret of Cortona

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[highlight-text]If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think 'I want to make this movie ' it'll never get made.

Sherry Lansing

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[highlight-text]Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

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[highlight-text]Morality like physical cleanliness is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

Victoria Ocampo

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[highlight-text]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 Anouilh

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[highlight-text]One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

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[highlight-text]Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Lord Chesterfield

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[highlight-text]Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.

James A. Garfield

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[highlight-text]There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

Dag Hammarskjold

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[highlight-text]We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

Katherine Mansfield

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[highlight-text]The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

W. H. Murray

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[highlight-text]Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself looked it full in the face and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

B. C. Forbes