Best commitment & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.”

People Firsts Together Objects Commitment Overcoming Inertia

Book:The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

Source: The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

“COMMITMENT is the first step to every good thing I know, and the only step that matters when it comes to achievement. It inspires and attracts people, shows them you have conviction and goals, that you are focused and determined. And the commitment that is based on values will endure. Any time you make choices based on solid life values, you are in a better position to sustain your level of commitment, because you don't have to continually re-evaluate its importance.”

“Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.”

Firsts Democracy Middle Security Commitment Israel East Allies Middle East

Author:Barack Obama

“As time goes by, I'm increasingly impressed by how very special and timely it was that we got the degree of national commitment needed to put people on the Moon. For the first time, this nation was united in trying to develop an interplanetary capability. We've been trying to repeat that situation ever since.”

People Trying Firsts Nations United Situation Special Needed Moon Degrees Commitment First Time Repeats Capability Impressed Timely Time Goes By

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.”

Needs Firsts Motivational Passion Commitment Dedication Business Life

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments”

Years Firsts Worry Commitment Let Me Lifetime Permit Learners Lifetime Commitment

Book:The Life As We Knew It Collection

Source: The Life As We Knew It Collection

“The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.”

World Trying Firsts Facts Perfect Proud Civilization Commitment Around The World Damage Global Warming Comprehensive Treaties Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Irreversible Kyoto

Author:William J. Clinton

“the Federal Reserve, has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... The European central bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.”

Firsts Two Different Policy Commitment Employment Officials Reserves Inflation Federal Reserve Central Banks No Commitment

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.”

“Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.”

Ifs Want Firsts Hard Lasts Honest Commitment What You Want Being Honest Thick Honest With Yourself Be Honest With Yourself Doing What You Want

Author:Charlie Daniels

“I think it is important first of all that the president of the United States underscores our commitment to partnering with countries around the world, even though we're not intimidated by terrorist organisations.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.”

Firsts Commitment Scientist Cards Buddhist Zealot

Author:Richard Davidson

“The use of our military in combat should first require declaration of war. I have long called for reinstating the military draft, simply because I believe strongly that a national decision to go to war must also include a broad commitment to share its burdens. Whenever Congress decides to fund a war or other U.S. combat activities, it must provide a means to pay for it-then and there-not later. If we don't have the will to fully share the burdens of war, then we have no right to send our sons and daughters into harm's way.”

“My commitment to stand behind Datsun gained the trust of dealers and sold cars. My motto was: Dealers make money first, and then we make money.”

Firsts Behinds Car Commitment Making Money Motto Dealer My Motto Old Car

Author:Yutaka Katayama

“[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-control. Their goal was not to simply to ensure the child's duty to the family, but to help him or her make personal, individual commitments. They were the first authors to state that children must obey God rather than parents, in case of a clear conflict.”

Firsts Children Self States Helping Individual Parent Goal Cases Clear Modern Century Duty Conflict Commitment Tests Treatment Self Control Puritan 17th Century

Author:C. Sommerville

“I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.”

Firsts Movement Commitment Fellows Males Believer Superiors Overwhelming Fundamentalism

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.”

Firsts Attitude Steps Reflection Commitment Critical Theology

Author:Gustavo Gutiérrez

“In 1989 at Greater Saint Steven Full Gospel Church, I gave my life to Christ. That's pretty much where it all started for me. I was 23 years old at the time, right after my first year in the NBA. The pastor preached a message about being fully committed. That pretty much was me. I wasn't fully committed. I was kind of in and out all of the time. So I just wanted to make a commitment.”

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Author:Avery Johnson

“When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.”

Thinking Firsts Art Ideas Used Pieces Materials Photography Commitment Photographer Photograph Mediums Eras Just One Recalls

Author:William Wegman

“The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways.”

Way Firsts Sometimes Term Commitment Raises Profit Salary Short Term

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more by who you want to be.”

Thinking Want Firsts Persons Sometimes Hard Lasts Commitment Who You Are Quitting Road To Success First Person

Author:Will Smith

“A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. I have a commitment to accessibility. I believe in plot. I want an English professor to understand the symbolism while at the same time I want the people I grew up with - who may not often read anything but the Sears catalog - to read my books.”

“Businesses will only invest in Greece if three conditions are fulfilled. First, there must be a clear commitment to the euro. No businesses will invest if they have to fear that Greece will leave the euro zone at some point. Second, the Greek government must be prepared to work together with European institutions in order to restructure the country.”

Ifs Firsts Country Government Together Order Three Clear Conditions Commitment Institutions Prepared Greek Zone Working Together Fulfilled Be Prepared Greece Euro Restructure

Author:Martin Schulz

“Coming from a background as unique as mine, the first challenge is being able to identify chaos as chaos. For the first half of my life, I interpreted chaos as normal. Today, I am aware that I have triggers: a default way of thinking that is often not relative to the immediate moment. Therefore, in the midst of chaos, I have learned to relinquish all my premature cognitive commitments and become present.”

Thinking Way Firsts Moments Today Able Challenges Half Mines Normal Unique Commitment Chaos Backgrounds Midst Relative I Have Learned Triggers Way Of Thinking Default Cognitive Premature

Author:Romany Malco

“The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in it you find the signs of his commitments, and of the whole way of writing as well. This mixture of austerity and sensuality, the will to speak for those not able to speak for themselves.”

Men Way Writing Firsts Wells Whole Facts Able Lasts Certain Speak Commitment Sensuality Mixtures Austerity Posthumous

Author:Catherine Camus

“I would like to say something deeper, but for me, I saw a production of "Fences" in Rhode Island and a fabulous actress played Rose, but when she first came on the stage she was mad. You could just see it. She was all, "Troy stop!" So by the time you get to the revelation scene, I didn't think she loved him, so there was no loss. I think that the real tragedy and the real drama or the thing that makes you lean in is to see the love, to see the commitment. To see the fact that Rose is invested in this marriage no matter what.”

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Author:Viola Davis

“We have not always been in sync on every issue in terms of our core values, in terms of her integrity, her truthfulness, her thoughtfulness, [Angela Merkel] doing her homework, knowing her facts, her commitment to looking out for the interests of the German people first, but recognizing that part of good leadership on behalf of the nation requires engaging the world as a whole, and participating effectively in multilaterally institutions, I think she's been outstanding.”

“I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my revolutionary commitments; they'll have to kill me first. They can't buy me out. I'm just not interested in what they have to offer. I've managed to stick it out, and the thing that has been the most rescuing, the most redeeming, feature of my life that has kept me alive, that has kept me more or less single-minded about my commitment to libertarian ideals once I escaped the trap of Marxist-Leninism - a childhood trap, to be sure - has been consciousness.”

“If you would've asked me about getting a pilot's license before 2005, I'd say you were crazy. After I graduated college, a fighter pilot asked me if I wanted to go up on a flight in a single-engine plane. I always had a fear about being in an airplane, but I took this opportunity to go up on my first flight in a single-engine rather than a big commercial plane I was accustomed to. I was hooked and made a commitment to become a pilot. I wanted to motivate others to not let fear stand in the way of their opportunities.”

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Author:Jessica Cox

“The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.”

Firsts Done America Support Issues Integrity Commitment Program Vote Debt Obligation Officials Ceilings Borrowing Elected Officials Debt Ceiling

Author:John Sununu

“The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.”

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Author:Allen West

“The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life.”

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.”

Firsts Pain Faces Relationship Commitment Response

Author:Bell Hooks

“I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.”

People Trying Firsts Mean Made Done Able Jobs Inspire Commitment Whatever It Takes Inspire Others Get The Job Done

Author:James Cameron

“My first six years in the business were hopeless. There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this? I'll never make it. It's just not going to happen. I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive."”

Inspirational Should Trying Years Firsts Real Happens Jobs Success Business Six Commitment Hopeless Real Jobs

Author:George Lucas

“A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.”

Firsts Action Goal Vision Taken Commitment Obstacles Abandoned

Book:See You at the Top

Source: See You at the Top

“I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.”

Years Firsts Book Ends Hard Enjoy Focus Hard Work Drink Commitment Eight Enjoy Life Pennies

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and day out. And that is my commitment to you. We need immigration reform that will secure our borders, and punish employers who exploit immigrant labor; reform that finally brings the 12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows by requiring them to take steps to become legal citizens. We must assert our values and reconcile our principles as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. That is a priority I will pursue from my very first day.”

“If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Giving Up Commitment First Time Boat Don't Give Up Bail

Author:Lou Holtz

“Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other words, something had to be in it for him. And thus he became the father of lies and selfishness. Taking up one's cross and following the Savior means overcoming selfishness; it is a commitment to serve others. Selfishness is one of the baser human traits, which must be subdued and overcome. We torture our souls when we focus on getting rather than giving.”

Giving Firsts Humans Mean Two Soul Lying Father Focus Plans Conditions Honor Commitment Crosses Overcoming Following Selfish Denial Selfishness Satan Torture Agency Savior Traits

Author:James E. Faust

“When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.”

Way Firsts Persons Matter Enough Inspiration Motivation Goal Impossible Achievement Commitment Accomplish

Author:Nido R Qubein

“Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new creative directions by a spiritual awareness and moral commitment that transcend nationalism, racism, sexism, religious sectarianism, anthropocentrism, and the dualism between human culture and nature. This is the great issue for the 1990s and the twenty-first century.”

“You have the greatest chance of winning when your first commitment is to a total and enthusiastic involvement in the game itself. Enthusiasm is what matters most.”

Firsts Matter Games Winning Chance Commitment Enthusiasm Wrestling What Matters Enthusiastic Involvement

Author:John Brodie

“Commitment is taking the first step, even if it means falling the rest of the way down.”

Ifs Way Firsts Mean Fall Steps Commitment First Steps

Author:Wes Fesler

“With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these [hydrogen fuel cell] cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free.”

“Ever since I had my first child I have been passionate in my commitment to preserve our precious resources for my children and their children's children. This is the obligation of all of us visiting this planet for a limited time.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Planets Commitment Resources Passionate Obligation Preserves My Children Visiting Limited Time

Author:Kyra Sedgwick

“Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you’ve given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but it’s the first time they’ve internalized it.”

People Firsts May Might Given Four Heard Speech Messages Commitment First Time Consistency Relentless

Author:David M. Cote

“What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.”

“Ever since I first visited New Orleans back in '89, I've been intrigued by the French Quarter. I always wanted to set something in the Quarter, whether it was historic or contemporary. Unfortunately, I was always tied up with previous commitments - earlier multiple contracts - and could not get a crack at it.”

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Author:Robert Asprin

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