Commitment Quotes

You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.

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

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

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.

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.

What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might.

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor.

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.

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.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity and in the end no manhood.

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors you had better seek another flag.

I don't want people who want to dance I want people who have to dance.

What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough.

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

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.

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.

I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

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

Moderation in war is imbecility.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

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.

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.

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

If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.

If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?

Theirs is not to reason why theirs is but to do or die.

If you aren't going all the way why go at all?

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.

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes something.

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

The dedicated life is the life worth living.

The secret of living is to find a pivot the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.

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

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

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.

Most people are not for or against anything the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow to overcome inertia.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.

He did it with all his heart and prospered.

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

It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.