commitment

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
17f15bb	We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.	bravery carpe-diem commitment courage here-and-now indiviuality inspirational passion	Che Guevara
f39239b	Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.	affirmations author c-toni-graham commitment inspirational ya-author	C.Toni Graham
4f55baa	All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.	commitment curelty endurance forgiveness harm health love relationship unkindness	Bell Hooks
418a462	Don't ever give up	commitment dedication drive eena inspirational perserverance persistence resolve richelle richelle-goodrich	Richelle E. Goodrich
5997816	What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.	commitment inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic perseverance positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking resilience	Roy T. Bennett
bed9322	The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.	commitment inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success	Roy T. Bennett
9f1d6a9	Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.	commitment love perseverance	Hanif Kureishi
5cef7f8	Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first became involved with the Czech opposition in 1968 when it was an intoxicating and celebrated cause. Then, during the depressing 1970s and 1980s I was a member of a routine committee that tried with limited success to help the reduced forces of Czech dissent to stay nourished (and published). The most pregnant moment of that commitment was one that I managed to miss at the time: I passed an afternoon with Zdenek Mlynar, exiled former secretary of the Czech Communist Party, who in the bleak early 1950s in Moscow had formed a friendship with a young Russian militant with an evident sense of irony named Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev. In 1988 I was arrested in Prague for attending a meeting of one of Vaclav Havel's 'Charter 77' committees. That outwardly exciting experience was interesting precisely because of its almost Zen-like tedium. I had gone to Prague determined to be the first visiting writer not to make use of the name Franz Kafka, but the numbing bureaucracy got the better of me. When I asked why I was being detained, I was told that I had no need to know the reason! Totalitarianism is itself a cliche (as well as a of pulverizing boredom) and it forced the cliche upon me in turn. I did have to mention Kafka in my eventual story. The regime fell not very much later, as I had slightly foreseen in that same piece that it would. (I had happened to notice that the young Czechs arrested with us were not at all frightened by the police, as their older mentors had been and still were, and also that the police themselves were almost fatigued by their job. This was totalitarianism practically yawning itself to death.) A couple of years after that I was overcome to be invited to an official reception in Prague, to thank those who had been consistent friends through the stultifying years of what 'The Party' had so perfectly termed 'normalization.' As with my tiny moment with Nelson Mandela, a whole historic stretch of nothingness and depression, combined with the long and deep insult of having to be pushed around by boring and mediocre people, could be at least partially canceled and annealed by one flash of humor and charm and generosity.	1968 1970s 1980s 1988 allegiance arguments arrest bad-crowds boredom bureaucracy charm charter-77 clichés commitment communism czechoslovakia detention dissent exile generosity gorbachev history humour irony kafka loyalty mediocrity moscow nelson-mandela police politics prague russia totalitarianism vaclav-havel zdenek-mlynar	Christopher Hitchens
8cbee40	Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.	chance commitment uncertainty uncertainty-principle	Alan Lightman
6a0b7dc	Da imash dete e kato da si napravish tatuirovka na litseto. Naistina triabva da si sigurna, che tochno tova iskash, predi da mu se posvetish.	baby children commitment family kids responsibility	Elizabeth Gilbert
851c9f3	...Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an expression of agreeable expectation, in itself denoting the existence of interesting and desirable qualities in the husband at the moment inserting his latch-key in the front door preparatory to mounting the stairs and joining her. The man who, after twenty-five years of marriage, can call, by his return to her side, this expression to the countenance of an intelligent woman is, without question or argument, an individual whose life and occupations are as interesting as his character and points of view.	commitment enjoyment faithfulness interesting life love marriage partners	Frances Hodgson Burnett
ab189fa	But whatever she was I loved her and was committed to her and had always been, here and out beyond the stars, those stars behind stars behind stars which I had seen that night when I lay on the rocks and the golden sky slowly turned the universe inside out.	commitment description iris-murdoch love stars the-sea-the-sea unconditional-love	Iris Murdoch
e10f04e	Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in	commitment	Patrick Lencioni

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

bravery carpe-diem commitment courage here-and-now indiviuality inspirational passion

Che Guevara

f39239b

Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.

affirmations author c-toni-graham commitment inspirational ya-author

C.Toni Graham

4f55baa

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

commitment curelty endurance forgiveness harm health love relationship unkindness

Bell Hooks

418a462

Don't ever give up

commitment dedication drive eena inspirational perserverance persistence resolve richelle richelle-goodrich

Richelle E. Goodrich

5997816

What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.

commitment inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic perseverance positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking resilience

Roy T. Bennett

bed9322

The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.

commitment inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success

Roy T. Bennett

9f1d6a9

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

commitment love perseverance

Hanif Kureishi

5cef7f8

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first became involved with the Czech opposition in 1968 when it was an intoxicating and celebrated cause. Then, during the depressing 1970s and 1980s I was a member of a routine committee that tried with limited success to help the reduced forces of Czech dissent to stay nourished (and published). The most pregnant moment of that commitment was one that I managed to miss at the time: I passed an afternoon with Zdenek Mlynar, exiled former secretary of the Czech Communist Party, who in the bleak early 1950s in Moscow had formed a friendship with a young Russian militant with an evident sense of irony named Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev. In 1988 I was arrested in Prague for attending a meeting of one of Vaclav Havel's 'Charter 77' committees. That outwardly exciting experience was interesting precisely because of its almost Zen-like tedium. I had gone to Prague determined to be the first visiting writer not to make use of the name Franz Kafka, but the numbing bureaucracy got the better of me. When I asked why I was being detained, I was told that I had no need to know the reason! Totalitarianism is itself a cliche (as well as a of pulverizing boredom) and it forced the cliche upon me in turn. I did have to mention Kafka in my eventual story. The regime fell not very much later, as I had slightly foreseen in that same piece that it would. (I had happened to notice that the young Czechs arrested with us were not at all frightened by the police, as their older mentors had been and still were, and also that the police themselves were almost fatigued by their job. This was totalitarianism practically yawning itself to death.) A couple of years after that I was overcome to be invited to an official reception in Prague, to thank those who had been consistent friends through the stultifying years of what 'The Party' had so perfectly termed 'normalization.' As with my tiny moment with Nelson Mandela, a whole historic stretch of nothingness and depression, combined with the long and deep insult of having to be pushed around by boring and mediocre people, could be at least partially canceled and annealed by one flash of humor and charm and generosity.

1968 1970s 1980s 1988 allegiance arguments arrest bad-crowds boredom bureaucracy charm charter-77 clichés commitment communism czechoslovakia detention dissent exile generosity gorbachev history humour irony kafka loyalty mediocrity moscow nelson-mandela police politics prague russia totalitarianism vaclav-havel zdenek-mlynar

Christopher Hitchens

8cbee40

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

chance commitment uncertainty uncertainty-principle

Alan Lightman

6a0b7dc

Da imash dete e kato da si napravish tatuirovka na litseto. Naistina triabva da si sigurna, che tochno tova iskash, predi da mu se posvetish.

baby children commitment family kids responsibility

Elizabeth Gilbert

851c9f3

...Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an expression of agreeable expectation, in itself denoting the existence of interesting and desirable qualities in the husband at the moment inserting his latch-key in the front door preparatory to mounting the stairs and joining her. The man who, after twenty-five years of marriage, can call, by his return to her side, this expression to the countenance of an intelligent woman is, without question or argument, an individual whose life and occupations are as interesting as his character and points of view.

commitment enjoyment faithfulness interesting life love marriage partners

Frances Hodgson Burnett

ab189fa

But whatever she was I loved her and was committed to her and had always been, here and out beyond the stars, those stars behind stars behind stars which I had seen that night when I lay on the rocks and the golden sky slowly turned the universe inside out.

commitment description iris-murdoch love stars the-sea-the-sea unconditional-love

Iris Murdoch

e10f04e

Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in

commitment

Patrick Lencioni