A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Samuel Goldwyn

• commitment

When a man decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. He must know first why he is doing it and then must proceed with his actions with no doubts or remorse. Carlos Castaneda

• commitment

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. Vince Lombardi

• commitment
• excellence

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale

• commitment

I always tell our athletes, "The qualities you develop now, the things we're going to insist upon, will be with you for life, and they'll always be as sound and as good as they are now." All we're really talking about is a commitment to excellence. Lou Holtz

• commitment
• excellence

When you have once devoted your life, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals; and whosoever has taken this resolution feels his strength and resources doubled. Alexandre Dumas

• purpose
• commitment

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The main reason people fail is not because of lack of ability or opportunities. They fail because they lack the inner strength to persist in the face of obstacles and difficulties. That's why trying something almost always leads to failure. By definition, trying something means you will quit if you are not successful. Ruben Gonzalez

• failure
• commitment
• persistence
• adversity

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods. Stephen Covey

• commitment

Any resolution or decision you make is simply a promise to yourself, which isn't worth a tinker's dam unless you have formed the habit of making it and keeping it. And you won't form the habit of making it and keeping it unless right at the start you link it with a definite purpose that can be accomplished by keeping it. In other words, any resolution or decision you make today has to be made again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, and the next, and so on. And it not only has to be made each day, but it has to be kept each day, for if you miss one day in the making or keeping of it, you've got to go back and begin all over again. But if you continue the process of making it each morning and keeping it each day, you will finally wake up some morning a different man in a different world, and you will wonder what has happened to you and the world you used to live in. Albert Gray

• discipline
• habit
• commitment

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Commitment separates the doers from the dreamers. Andre Maronian

• dreams
• commitment

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have dreamed would come his way. W. H. Murray

• commitment
• initiative
• creativity

I'm not dopey enough to tie up my whole life in the future because of some promise I made in the past—under different circumstances. Richard Feynman

• commitment

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The mercenaries will always beat the draftees, but the volunteers will crush them both. Chuck Noll

• leadership
• commitment