Quotes About Commitment

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are.  A man finds his identity by identifying.

— Robert Terwilliger

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade.  Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

— Robert J. Sternberg

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self—two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

— Pope John Paul II

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead

In his later years, Winston Churchill was asked to give the commencement address at Oxford University.  Following his introduction, he rose, went to the podium, and said, “Never, never, never give up.”  Then he took his seat.

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.

— Walter Cronkite

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely.

— Charles Dickens

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the “right stuff” to turn our dreams into reality.

— James Womack

There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.  I do, and I demand that my players do.

— Vince Lombardi