Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rocky Marciano

There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body.

Robertson Davies

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.

Robert MacNeil

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

Wally Amos

Commitment is the match that lights the fire.

Sarah Dessen

Total commitment," I said. "You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

Sarah Dessen

This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

Sarah Dessen

I've seen what commitment leads to. Going in is the easy part. It's the ending that sucks! -Remy

Sarah Dessen

He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes depending on who else was around, how much either of us had to drink, and other varying factors. This was exactly what I wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.

Warren Farrell

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Yul Vazquez

Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.

Twyla Tharp

But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working

William Barclay

Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.

Walter Kohn

My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.

Vladimir Putin

I have to say that oil and gas revenues make up a large part of the Russian budget revenue. This is a serious component for us in addressing economic development, budget funding for our development programmes and, of course, and meeting of our social commitments to our citizens.

Yo-Yo Ma

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

Rick Warren

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.

Rick Warren

A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

Rick Warren

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

Rick Warren

We become whatever we are committed to

Rick Warren

When the Bible speaks of God's love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.

Rick Warren

Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.

Rick Warren

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

Treat Williams

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

Steve Vai

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

Vince Lombardi

Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

Vince Lombardi

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

Vince Lombardi

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Vince Lombardi

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

Rebecca Solnit

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Rebecca Solnit

While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundamental commitments, but its often dismal tone, righteousness, defeatism, etc.

Sam Altman

Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.

William Hazlitt

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.