commitment

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It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.

- O'Grady, Scott

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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.

- Angelis, Barbara De

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Decide that you really want to achieve the goal...

- Mckain, Robert J.

4.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

- Young, Brigham

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The resolved mind hath no cares.

- Herbert, George

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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

- Lombardi, Vince

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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

- Robert Sternberg

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Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

- Waitley, Denis

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Reality forms around a commitment.

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Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.

- Szasz, Thomas

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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.

- Twain, Mark

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You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you.

- Marden, Orison Swett

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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

- Vincent T. Lombardi

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There's always a way -- if you're committed.

- Robbins, Anthony

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You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

- Waitley, Denis

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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

- Miller, Arthur

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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

- Carlyle, Thomas

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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Vince Lombardi

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Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

- Blomberg, Ron

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If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

- Vermeil, Dick