Some Commitment Quotes

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

- Ovid

If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Joe Namath

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.

- Duke P. Kahanamoku

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

- Swami Sivananda

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

- General Douglas MacArthur

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

- Walter Savage Landor

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

- Paul Goodman

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

- William F. Scolavino

The dedicated life is the life worth living.

- Annie Dillard

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

- Luigi Pirandello

10 Commitment Quotes

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

- Simone Weil

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

- Josiah Royce

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

- Charles Buxton

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

- Henrik Ibsen

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.

- Edna Saint Vincent Millay

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.

- General Sir John Monash

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

- Theresa Helburn

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

- Michael Evans

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

- Harvey Fierstein

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

- Cecil B. DeMille

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Commitement Quotes

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.

- Lou Holtz

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Mary Henle

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Moderation in war is imbecility.

- Admiral John Fisher

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

- Louisa May Alcott

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

- Sophia Loren

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

- Phyllis McGinley

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Woody Hayes