Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Munger

Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke. You've made an enormous commitment to something.You've poured effort and money in. And the more you put in, the more that the whole consistency principle makes you think.

Charles Garfield

Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

Bill McKibben

Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.

Bill Ayers

The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.

Beth Moore

Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn’t keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.

Bob Kerrey

If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. Its not clear how they will do it, but it never is.

What's really important here is that documentary commitment to telling the truth is being compromised by the need to accommodate perceived intellectual and copyright constraints.

Unless the international community renews its commitment to deal with the consequences of the food crisis in Niger, including the prevailing level of malnutrition, the country faces a second year of extreme suffering and hardship.

Unfortunately, Judge Roberts' response did not indicate a commitment to protect a woman's right to choose.

Very few people could ever make a commitment to do what John did. He set a goal after he was done playing football that he wanted to become the strongest man in the world. He worked hard enough to do that.

Benjamin Franklin

Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.

bell hooks

Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.

bell hooks

The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

bell hooks

Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.

bell hooks

... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

bell hooks

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

bell hooks

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

Arundhati Roy

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

We're investing in ourselves to show our commitment to the campaign. We're making a statement that we're in the race.

Leonard Boswell

As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.

Edward Hirsch

Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.

With the program where it is right now, it's a nice statement of commitment and continuity.

Ultimately, our commitment on the defensive end pulled it out for us.

We made a fairly diligent search of our records. We could find no reference to any commitment to provide an observation deck.

We're going back into core values: honor, courage and commitment.

Ryan Callahan

We're not doing anything much different than we did all year. The only difference now is that it's playoffs and we're showing more commitment to the task. We're getting on them and that's what we have.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Bob Dole

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.

Brian Tracy

You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.