Quotes on Commitment

Your silence will not protect you.

There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she had such a strong sense of self and such a commitment to the future and such a strong creative sense that she could build new worlds for herself and for us out of the total devastation in her life.

I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams, I would tell them also that a young Black woman or a young Black man can't dream too much today or dare too much if he or she works hard, perseveres and dedicates themselves to excellence.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

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.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

My first six years in the business were hopeless._x000D_ _x000D_ There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this?_x000D_ _x000D_ I'll never make it._x000D_ _x000D_ It's just not going to happen._x000D_ _x000D_ I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive."

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.