Commitment
"The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed."
- Martina Navratilova, 1956- , American tennis player
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
- Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach
"What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might."
- Marcus T. Cicero, c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator and politician
"A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads."
- Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, Scottish philosopher and author
"The resolved mind hath no cares."
- George Herbert, 1593-1632, British metaphysical poet
"Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a
success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it
unswervingly. That's dedication."
- Cecil B. DeMille, 1881-1959, American movie producer
"Whatever you do, do with all your might."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC-43 BC, Roman author, orator and politician
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting
devotion to the things you want to see happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869-1959, U.S. architect
"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There
is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
- Wayne Dyer, motivational speaker
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
- Margaret Thatcher, 1925 - , British politician
"If you hear a voice within you say, 'you cannot paint,' then by all means
paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter
"The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the
crowd at the bottom."
- Anonymous
"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and
unquestionably."
- Walt Disney, 1901-1966. American cartoonist and movie producer
"A successful life doesn't require that we've done the best -- but that we've
done our best."
- H. Jackson Brown, U.S. author
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