Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Graham

Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only that he has a better chance for profit than for loss - not that loss is impossible. But as the number of such commitments is increased the more certain does it become that the aggregate of the profits will exceed the aggregate of the losses.

Brian Tracy

You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.

Brian Tracy

The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.

Brian Tracy

One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

Brian Tracy

Make a commitment today to something bigger and more important than yourself.

Brian Tracy

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

Brian Tracy

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

Larry Thompson

We tried different things on defense (in the first half) like traps and pressing. We settled on man-to-man (in the second half) and it seemed to work out for us. Once we settled on one thing, we committed to it and did a nice job on it.

We've been involved very directly and very intensively for a long time. I think the way to look at the events over the last 24 hours is a continuation of the United States' strong commitment to facilitating Israeli-Palestinian cooperation.

We're anticipating a very generous EU response. We have a very strong commitment from the U.S. We expect the Japanese to come with a strong commitment.

We have zero commitments for 7 because it is too early,

David Gill

We hope to make one or two very big signings this summer - and we are already committed to that.

Yahoo! is committed to renewable power as it helps support sustainable, healthy communities for our customers and employees. Santa Clara Green Power gives us the opportunity to work together with the community to reach our common goals.

We have a young team and I think they've shown me they have a level of commitment and desire to compete. It's really exciting.

The creation of the committees are moving forward and led by competent individuals. This will be seen through.

We have six wins and that's a lot better than what we had last year. These are great kids and they've committed themselves to be better.

The people of New Orleans have our commitment to restore service to pre- hurricane levels as quickly as we can.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

bell hooks

Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.

bell hooks

The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

bell hooks

Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.

bell hooks

... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

bell hooks

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

bell hooks

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

Arundhati Roy

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

Bob Dole

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.

Bono

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Antonin Scalia

Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.

Bruce Jenner

If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.

Edmund Burke

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.