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Les Brown

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Topic: Commitment
Location: Lake Tahoe
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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More on Commitment

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

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Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street. — William Arthur Ward

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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. — Mohandas Gandhi

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Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light. — Persian Proverb

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Never, never, never quit. — Winston Churchill

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When the occasion is piled high with difficulty, that’s when we must rise with the occasion. — Abraham Lincoln

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Commitment is an act, not a word. — Jean-Paul Sartre

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. — Nelson Mandela

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Never make a promise in haste. — Mohandas Gandhi

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Slow and steady wins the race. — Aesop

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Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest. — Sextus Propertius

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Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please. — Benjamin Franklin

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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. — Napoleon Hill

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That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence. — William Shakespeare

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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are a million excuses for not paying the price. — Michael Jordan

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You might have to fight a battle more than once to win it. — Margaret Thatcher

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The end is near as soon as you begin to doubt yourself. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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It always seems impossible until it is done. — Nelson Mandela

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. — Peter Drucker

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