Commitment Quotes

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You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.

- Amelia Earhart

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

- Michelle Obama

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

- Ralph Ellison

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

- Marshall McLuhan

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

- James Baldwin

Live truth instead of expressing it.

- Elbert Hubbard

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

- Joan Baez

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

- Faye Wattleton

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

- Peter Drucker

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

- Mark Twain

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

- Hannah Arendt

Sustainability isn't about the quick fix or the cheap solution. Generally it means making a commitment and trying, as best we can, to honor it. In any worthwhile enterprise, from protecting the environment to preserving a relationship, we are going to encounter difficulties. The good life is not a problem-free life. In point of fact, the process of overcoming adversity often produces some of the most rewarding experiences we will ever have. Human beings need to be challenged to 'test their mettle,' as it were. Throwing in the towel at the first sign of trouble or small inkling of distress may be the easy thing to do, but it doesn't help our self-concept. Most of life's troubles can be overcome if we are willing to work through them with patience.

- Michael A. Schuler

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.

- Sam Nunn

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The good news is that we are making progress. The bad news is that we're doing too little and moving much too slowly.

- Sam Nunn

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

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

- Barack Obama

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

- Edmund Burke

In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.

- High Eagle

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

- Stephen Covey

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

- Mary Kay Ash

Only do what your heart tells you.

- Princess Diana

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. (attributed)

- Talmud