Best Commitment Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”

Source: Killosophy

“A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.”

Jesus Christ Wife Husband Percent Commitment Jesus Christ Loyalty Faithful Part Time Faithful Wife

Author:Vance Havner

“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”

“I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.”

Years Has Beens I Can States Problem Home Law Community Leader Commitment Congress Locals Law Enforcement Enforcement Urgency Constituents Local Community Washington State

Author:Rick Larsen

“That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.”

Years Process One Thing Goes On Commitment Frustrating

Author:Thomas Lennon

“What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.”

Trying Firsts Energy Company Commitment Managers Sleeves

Author:James Murdoch

“At XL, we tackle risk like no one else, analyzing deeper and listening closely to our clients to create solutions that unleash the world's capacity to advance. By helping our clients unlock their full potential, we fulfill our own. Our new brand demonstrates this unique outlook and the commitment and value we bring to clients.”

World Helping Values Risk Listening Unique Solutions Commitment Capacity Deeper Brands Clients Outlook Analyzing Full Potential

Author:Mike McGavick

“Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.”

America Commitment Appearance Contracts Can't Change Physical Appearance

Author:Rebel Wilson

“We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.”

Shows Jesus Commitment Invitations

Author:Rowan Williams

“We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.”

Men Doe My Own Liberty Particular Willing Depends Circumstances Commitment Aim Sake Definitions Obliged

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!”

Joy Challenges Losing Commitment Overcoming Filled Missionary Boldness Realist

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We must not surrender our positions or our values. The gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we have made inevitably cast us as combatants in the eternal contest between truth and error. there is no middle ground in that contest.”

Made Values Jesus Christ Middle Position Eternal Commitment Jesus Christ Errors Casts Surrender Compromise Contests Covenant Meek Contention Middle Ground

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.”

Persons Opinion Thousand Commitment Accomplish

Author:Orrin Woodward

“I think live-in relations are for people who are not sure, and to an extent commitment phobic.”

People Thinking Commitment Relation Not Sure

Author:Sonam Kapoor

“I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.”

Ifs Feels I Can Enough Political Social Emotional Commitment Roots Indian Canada Expatriates

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.”

People Thinking Knows Book Hard Desire Fun Written Amount Commitment Sticks Having Fun

Author:Ted Bell

“I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.”

Long Film Views Journey Commitment Long Journey

Author:Arnon Goldfinger

“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.”

Thinking Men Play Causes Acting Boys Stage He Man Huge Commitment Yeah Frontline

Author:Yul Vazquez

“I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.”

Men I Can Actors Forever Football He Man Commitment Stress Beer Interviews Predictable Ordinariness

Author:Peter York

“If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.”

People Ifs World Want Millions Commitment Dollars What You Want Doing What You Want

Author:Jonathan Frid

“Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.”

Years Made Hard Fighting Passion Answers Wall Commitment Made It Harry Potter Potters

Author:David Heyman

“Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.”

Has Beens Government President Generations Commitment Perpetual Patriot Continuation American President

Author:George Nethercutt

“At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.”

Sacrifice Greatness Commitment Seeds Stem Sprouts

Author:Kedar Joshi

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