quotations and passages about commitment

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

James Womack

We only regard those unions as real examples of love
and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable
decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate
an escape, they do not collect all their powers for
the task. In none of the serious and important tasks
of life do we arrange such a "getaway."
We cannot love and be limited.

Alfred Adler

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

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes
a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When
you're interested in doing something, you do it only
when circumstance permit. When you're committed
to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's 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

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

Peter F. Drucker

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

Harvey Fierstein

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

Margaret Mead

Commitment creates a powerful radiant energy
that activates all sorts of "miracles" within and around you.

Susan Jeffers

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. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no person could have dreamt would have come his or her way.

William H. Murray

There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN
or you’re OUT. There’s no such thing as life in between.

Pat Riley

Commitment is a line you must cross. . . . it is
the difference between dreaming and doing.

Bernie Fuchs

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It's not how physically strong you are that matters,
it's the level of commitment that you hold in your heart
that will get you through the hard parts.

Scott Rogers

Commitment is what transforms
a promise into reality.

Abraham Lincoln

Commitment is never
an act of moderation!

Kenneth Mills

It takes a deep commitment to change
and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Ralph Ellison

The people who say you are
not facing reality actually mean
that you are not facing their
idea of reality. Reality is above
all else a variable. With a firm
enough commitment, you can
sometimes create a reality
which did not exist before.

Margaret Halsey

The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments
match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will
and courage to match our commitments.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The moment one definitely commits oneself, the Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issue from the commitment, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamt would come one's way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Articles and book excerpts on commitment:

Getting from Here to There Tim Autrey
The Person I Devote Myself to Be tom walsh

Modern life has made us people of attachment rather than people of
commitment. Indeed, many people have found that it is difficult to
tell the difference between attachment and commitment in their own
lives. Yet attachment leads farther and farther into entrapment.
Commitment, though it may sometimes feel constricting, will ultimately
lead to greater degrees of freedom. Both involve in the moment an
experience of holding, sometimes against the flow of events or against
temptation. One can distinguish between the two in most situations by
noticing over time whether one has moved through this activity or this
relationship closer to freedom or closer to bondage. Attachment is a
reflex, an automatic response which often may not reflect our deepest
good. Commitment is a conscious choice, to align ourselves with our
most genuine values and our sense of purpose.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love,
lack of jealousy--that's the vision we are given in our culture,
generally, when we think of the highest thing. . . . Another way
to look at it is that the aim of the person is not to be detached,
but to be more attached--to be attached to working; to be
attached to making chairs or something that helps everyone;
to be attached to beauty; to be attached to music.

Robert Bly

Love is when I am concerned with your relationship with your own
life, rather than with your relationship to mine. . . . there must be a
commitment to each other's well-being. Most people who say they have
a commitment don't; they have an attachment. Commitment means,
"I am going to stick with you and support your experience of well-being."
Attachment means, "I am stuck without you."

Stewart Emery

Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather,
it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some
cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.

Sidney M. Jourard

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