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Commitment Quotes and Sayings

Better a broken promise than none at all
Mark Twain

Never promise more than you can perform
Publilius Syrus

All promise outruns performance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A promise must never be broken
Alexander Hamilton

Promise a lot and give even more
Anthony J. D�Angelo

There�s no abiding success without commitment
Anthony Robbins

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance
Tom Flores

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach
Tom Robbins

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me
Arthur Blank

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime
Imre Lakatos

The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives
James Douglass

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance
Tom Flores

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach
Tom Robbins

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies
Benjamin Franklin

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved
Bill Gates

To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments
Brian Koslow

Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do
Brian Tracy

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down
David McNally

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider
Dr. Joyce Brothers

I can imagine no more important contribution to our country�s future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools
Eli Broad

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears
Francois de la Rochefoucauld.

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

Show up on time, with a plan, a commitment to carry it out, and then execute it
Harvey Mackay

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the �right stuff� to turn our dreams into reality
James Womack

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one�s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

So we have a commitment to the business and to its people
John Kluge

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people
Laura Dern

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers
Les Brown

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it�s the only thing that ever has
Margaret Mead

Desire is the key to motivation, but it�s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence, that will enable you to attain the success you seek
Mario Andretti

Does anybody really think that they didn�t get what they had because they didn�t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela

Everyone is a millionaire where promises are concerned
Ovid

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans
Peter F. Drucker

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future
Peter F. Drucker

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation
Pope John Paul II

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still
Robert Sternberg

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying
Robert Terwilliger

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt
Rollo May

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another�too often ending in the loss of both
Tryon Edwards

The quality of a person�s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort � that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work
Vince Lombardi

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
William Hazlitt

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