Commitment Quotes - Page 12

• When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  People, Brotherhood, Culture

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• A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well; equally help from above is no benefit to us unless there is also commitment and readiness on our part.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Doe, Benefits, Helping

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• 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.

  Cesar Chavez

  Beautiful, Jobs, Thinking

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• Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Champion, Weight, Winner

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.84, e-artnow

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• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  Mae West

  Funny, Business, Promise

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, World, Well Being

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• On this International Day of UN Peacekeepers, let us pay tribute to the men and women from countries across the world who serve selflessly, tirelessly and fearlessly in UN peacekeeping operations. Let us remember the heroes who have laid down their lives in lands far from their own in the service of peace. And let us reaffirm our commitment to building a world free from the scourge of war.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, War, Hero

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• For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war.

  Jan Eliasson

  War, Noble, World

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• At (UNHCR's) headquarters, I met extraordinary people, men and women, especially from the emergency team, who shared with me their passion, their dedication and their commitment to this organisation and refugees. They told me about the daily difficulties they have to face and also the joy they felt when they managed to save a person whose life was threatened.

  Julien Clerc

  Team, Passion, Dedication

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• The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Ideas, United States, Action

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• My divorce was like a death - a genuine death of commitment and love. After I got over the shock, I was like, tell me theres some way we can save this. We can save this, right?

  Shania Twain

  Divorce, And Love, Way

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• As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.

  John Sweeney

  Strong, Children, Fighting

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• There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Creativity, Giving

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• It's been said that commitment is another name for success.

  John C. Maxwell

  Positive, Names, Said

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success Workbook: You Can Get There From Here”, p.204, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.

  Jimmy Carter

  Age, Income, Belief

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• 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.

  Margaret Cho

  Children, Thinking, Able

  "Kids" by Margaret Cho, margaretcho.com. September 6, 2012.

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• If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.

  Harry Chapin

  Thinking, Impact, Perception

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• I will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Lunch, Breakfast, Hunger

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• You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.

  Seth Godin

  Years, Needs, Next Year

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• The spirit of International Geneva is not only a catchword. It stands for Switzerland's commitment to advance international cooperation and dialogue - and we make every effort to ensure that the dynamics of the Geneva spirit are real.

  Didier Burkhalter

  Real, Effort, Switzerland

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• When John was with me, it was total commitment. Whatever he did outside our relationship didn't seem very important. We were together such a lot of the time that whatever other affairs he had once we met couldn't have amounted to much because I was with him most of the time. He kept me in Liverpool as late as I dared stay.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Together, Important, Affair

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• Our country, the United States of America, may be the worlds largest economy and the worlds only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.

  John Spratt

  Country, Iraq, America

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• I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.

  Soledad O'Brien

  America, Quality, Looks

  "Soledad O'Brien Joins Al Jazeera America as Special Correspondent" by Erik Hayden, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 01, 2013.

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• Something as unique as 'Scrubs' is a tough act to follow. It's hard to find something that good that you want to really make a commitment to.

  Judy Reyes

  Unique, Want, Tough

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• I believe that creativity is a product of intelligence. I don't believe that creative work can be produced by fools, dullards, or mediocre people, except in the rarest of accidents. Creativity is a product of desire, thought, experience, experimentation and inner conviction. Taken together, these five qualities imply intelligence and commitment.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Believe, Taken, Creativity

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