Quotes about Commitment

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.