Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Altman

Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.

Rocky Marciano

There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body.

Robertson Davies

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.

Robert MacNeil

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

Wally Amos

Commitment is the match that lights the fire.

Tom Lehrer

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

Steve Mahoney

If artists want to have people come to their shows and buy their merchandise, they really have to make a commitment to those fans and bring the best music, shows and interaction that they can. This is something that won't change with technology or economy.

Steve Harvey

Women want their love to be reciprocated in the same way they give it; they want their romantic lives to be as rewarding as they make them for their potential mates; they want the emotions that they turn on full blast to be met with the same intensity; and they expect the premium they put on commitment to be equally adhered to, valued, and respected.

Stephen Covey

If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.

Stephen Covey

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Vachel Lindsay

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

V. S. Pritchett

Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.

Vaclav Havel

Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.

Suzanne Farrell

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

Susan Wojcicki

At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business.

Taslima Nasrin

When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.

Stephen Lang

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

Steve Buyer

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

Shirley Hazzard

Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Steven Adler

I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew

Steven Pinker

If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.

Steven Pinker

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

Steven Pinker

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Steven Pinker

Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe.

Susan Jeffers

Commitment doesn't mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%.

Sumner Redstone

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

Robbie Fowler

Stuart is good for Manchester City. It is not hard to see his passion for the game, and his commitment. (on Stuart Pearce)

Russell Crowe

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Tryon Edwards

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Rhonda Britten

When your commitment is to be loving regardless of the circumstances, there is no room for harsh words. You assert yourself not from a desire to control but from a desire to stand for who you are.

Rhonda Britten

Invest in everything, attach to nothing.

Rhonda Britten

Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.

Rick Warren

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.