Commitment Quotes - Page 25

• Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Rights, Community

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• It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western European countries) are precisely those that, in the late twentieth century, invented a new status (‘illegal’) in order to deprive some of their residents of access to equality, human rights, and democracy.I am honored to lend my name to PICUM’s campaign to end the use of the term ‘illegal’ and to challenge the whole concept of illegality as a status.

  Aviva Chomsky

  Country, Pride, Order

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• I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Teamwork, Growing Up

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• What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

  James Dobson

  Sex, Stress, Kids

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• Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Intelligent, Past, Age

  "A grand finale" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2002.

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• Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Causes, Plans, Happens

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Generosity, Aristocracy, Position

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• It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Views, Focus

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

  Jane Rule

  Success, Balance, Lasts

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• We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Giving, Morocco

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• One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

  Rollo May

  Leadership, Leader, Doubt

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

  David Jeremiah

  Destiny, Cost, Discipleship

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• Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Loyalty, Religion, Levels

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.12, Macmillan

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• The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are meant to travel together, with spirit leading the way. Until we make a conscious commitment to understand and embrace our spiritual nature, we will endure the ache of living without the awareness and guidance of the most essential part of ourselves.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Spiritual, Effort, Mind

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.147, Anchor

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• I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

  Sumner Redstone

  Winning, Excellence, Improvement

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• The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any of these three are lacking. The raw material of dharma practice is ourself and our world, which are to be understood and transformed according to the vision and values of the dharma itself. This is not a process of self- or world- transcendence, but one of self- and world- creation.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Art, Our World, Self

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• So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

  Tony Campolo

  Jobs, Party, Republican

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• A dolly move is a moral commitment.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Moving, Moral, Film

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• A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any mentions and read the latest messages.

  Kevin Nealon

  Too Much, Messages, Checks

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• If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.

  Brett Favre

  Play, Percent, Ifs

  "Brett Favre Has His Say 'On The Record" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. July 15, 2008.

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• Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.

  Gerda Lerner

  Sex, Intimate Relationships, Order

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• Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

  Mary Douglas

  Our Society, Lifetime, Difficult

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• What I have said to my team is that at a point such as this, with 40% adjustment in our currency, it means that Malawians are paying the price. While that is going on, they need to see, us, the commitment on our part, particularly right at the top. The political will needs to go through this with the people, side by side.

  Joyce Banda

  Team, Mean, Political Will

  "Malawi's head of state: 'Why I'm selling presidential jet'". Interview with Athena Jones, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2012.

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• For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.

  Steve Buyer

  Grateful, Sacrifice, Honor

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• I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

  Adam Arkin

  Drama, Mean, Long

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