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“It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”

People Ifs Thinking Inspirational Success Can Do Learning Ordinary Commitment Determination Notion Openness Ordinary People Amazement Preconceived Notions Preconceived Ideas

Author:Ben Stein

“It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.”

Thinking Made Force Difficult My Own Wise College Commitment Profession Dancer Justify Interiors Parental

Author:Twyla Tharp

“When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'”

Thinking Fronts Commitment Standing Importance Institutions Partners Significance Closest Fidelity

Author:Mark Udall

“If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.”

Source: The Irrational Season

“The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Believe Kind Jobs Literature Responsibility Moral Cutting Talent Commitment Debate Obligation Artistic Agendas Civics Rigor Moral Obligation

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mean Relationship Willing Commitment What You Want Safe Haven

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment. Men and women with immense willpower are generally solitary types and give off a kind of coolness. Many people mistakenly think that (they) are cold (people) when nothing could be further from the truth.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“Commitment, I finally said. Both people have to be committed. I think if two people are committed to the marriage, if they really want to make it work, then they'll find a way to do it. No matter what happens in life.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Said Two Matter Happens Commitment No Matter What Committed

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.”

Thinking Life Sometimes Can Do Self Improvement Commitment Determination You Can Do It Better Than You Will And Determination Determination By Famous People

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage.”

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Author:Brené Brown

“When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.”

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.”

Thinking Way Kind Desire Passion Work Steps Morning Fields Bed Spring Commitment Excellence Self Confidence Genuine Performers Unwavering Passion For Excellence Spring In Your Step

Author:James C. Collins

“People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.”

People Thinking Inspirational Differences Discipline Commitment Dance Devotion

Author:Luciano Pavarotti

“Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.”

People Thinking Knows Community Commitment Encounters Willingness Openness Proximity

Author:David Spangler

“While holding positive thoughts and emotions is advantageous, positive thinking itself is not "Hallmark Card thinking." It's really an ongoing awareness that all truly is well with the world, with life, and with oneself. It's also a commitment not to mindlessly pass on fears but to bring positive energy, images, ideas, and feelings into the lives of others, to help them attune to the wellness at the heart of the world.”

“I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.”

Thinking Success Sports Understanding Our Lives Team Commitment Silent Athlete Teamwork

Author:Claire Carver-Dias

“...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.”

Thinking Persons Done Motivation Risk Willing Commitment Tasks Dedicated

Author:Cesar Chavez

“I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us.”

Thinking Long Sometimes Feelings Earth Remember Spirit Mother Father Winning Strong Force Movement Commitment Paid Unions Workers Dues Budgets Contracts Farms Strong Feeling

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.”

Thinking Men Humans Jobs Beautiful Guy Lines Walks Fronts Fields Walking One Day Commitment Tools Stronger Train Workers Strikes March Boss Beautiful Things Other Guys Best Place Organizer

Author:Cesar Chavez

“Why is commitment such a big problem for a man? I think that for some reason when a man is driving down that freeway of love, the woman he's with is like an exit, but he doesn't want to get off there. He wants to keep driving. And the woman is like, "Look, gas, food, lodging, that's our exit, that's everything we need to be happy... Get off here, now!" But the man is focusing on the sign underneath that says, "Next exit 27 miles," and he thinks, "I can make it."”

Thinking Men Want Needs Looks I Can Reason Problem Bigs Next He Man Commitment Driving Miles Gas Exit Funny Love Big Problems Freeways

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.”

“I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic commitment that the medical marijuana people have, many things could change in this country.”

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Author:John Trudell

“Think what a contribution selfish people of great talent could have made if their commitments had been made to Jesus Christ instead of to themselves! We will do better in every aspect of our lives if we commit to a God in whose life we see miracles, power over disease and death.”

People Ifs Thinking Made Jesus Christ Our Lives Talent Disease Commitment Jesus Christ Aspect Miracle Selfish Commit Contribution Great Talent Selfish People Disease And Death

Author:Vaughn J Featherstone

“We all support the idea of a strong marriage, we all clearly like a good party. Call us hopeless romantics, call it the triumph of hope over experience - most of us think when people love each other and want to make that long-term commitment, that is a wonderful thing. So why would we stop a loving couple getting married just because they are gay?”

“Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.”

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Author:Amy Ruley

“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.”

Thinking Way Looks Persons Helping Body Culture Given Vision Pure Highest Commitment Aim Leaving Chairs Another Way Transcendence Detachment Detached Pure Love

Author:Robert Bly

“I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not unconditional, it is just a hypothesis," and so on. It really is a most arrogant position. I think that the only way to be honest and expose yourself to criticism is to state clearly and dogmatically where you are. You must take the risk and have a position.”

“I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results.”

Thinking Results Beats Commitment Determination Remembered Odds Pests

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.”

“I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.”

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Author:Peter Billingsley

“Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.”

Thinking Doe Different Special Talent Cost Self Improvement Commitment Improvement No Money Special Talents

Author:Michael Arndt

“The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.”

Thinking Way Long Important Hard Moments Kids Three Careers Kissing Commitment Appreciation Partners Insane Our Relationship Thank You Long Way Affirming Juggling

Author:Michael Ian Black

“Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.”

Thinking Commitment

Author:William Lane Craig

“I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil. A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.”

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.”

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Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“We go to school and teachers teach us to read and write but nobody teaches us about the purposeful commitment and intentionality it takes to make our marriages healthy and sustain love over a lifetime. Most people seem to think love should "naturally" sustain itself as it did during the beginning of our relationship with each other -but that just isn't realistic.”

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Author:Cindy Wright

“With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future”

Thinking Important States Helping Energy Water Environment Car Produce Commitment Fuel Sincere Crucial Efficiency Energy Efficiency Fuel Efficiency

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.”

Thinking Moral Environment Commitment Faults Profound Oneself Warm Oppressed Conquest

Author:Robert Conquest

“No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only know when we act; doing becomes understanding.”

Thinking Knows Feels Matter Action Understanding Talent One Day Concepts Commitment And Love No Matter What Love And Courage

Book:The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose

Source: The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose

“I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Children Able Wanted Honest Commitment Handle Vulnerable Not Sure If I Could Childlessness

Author:Margaret Cho

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