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COMMITMENT QUOTES

COMMITMENT QUOTES

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
― Criss Jami

“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
― Barack Obama


“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
― Cornel West

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara


“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”
― Steve Hall

“If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.”
― John Mayer


“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
― Peter F. Drucker


“The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.”
― Steve Maraboli


“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
― Mario Andretti

“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.”
― Warren Farrell


“Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a relationship, a business or a hobby.”
― Neil Strauss

“Coach said. “the quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor”.”
― Sherman Alexie


“Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,
But you and I know what this world can do.
So let’s make our steps clear so the other may see.
And I’ll wait for you…should I fall behind wait for me.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“All I’m saying is that you shouldn’t stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It’s a choice you remake every day.”
― Aprilynne Pike


“Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”
― Esther Perel


“Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.”
― Phil Knight

“I’ll follow you, even to death—but I won’t live with you any more.”
― Prosper Mérimée


“The only people that can ruin a relationship or make that relationship work are the two people in it.”
― Rob Liano

“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)”
― Rollo May


“If you don’t write when you don’t have time for it, you won’t write when you do have time for it.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn’t do anything to match up to your wife.”
― Colin Firth


“Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication…I call that line commitment”
― Jeremy Aldana

“The difference between those who adapted and those who didn’t, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger


“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”
― Sammy Davis Jr.

“In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.”
― Dean Koontz


“No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.”
― Kamal Ravikant

“To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.”
― Steve Maraboli


“One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.”
― Orrin Woodward

“the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment”
― Hubert Dreyfus


“Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.”
― Allan Bloom

“And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons’, and your sons’ sons, until the day come.”
― Susan Cooper


“The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.”
― Rob Liano

“success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice”
― Ken Poirot


“Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.”
― Widad Akrawi

“Marriage is a marriage- love or arranged. Both require the same level of commitment.”
― Swati Kumar


“Our progress, the realization of our dreams, and the quality of our life depend directly on the level of our commitment to the process.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Love is not really a mystery. It is a process like anything else. A process that requires trust, effort, focus and commitment by two willing partners”
― Elizabeth Bourgeret


“As so many commitments
demand your time
Or your shut-eye important be,
Your attraction to me must
in some way lack,
Such a pity to spend time
on thee.”
― Charlotte M. Liebel

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
― Bishop Desmond Tutu


“There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment – no less real but completely different. She had both.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.”
― Stephen Covey


“There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either in or out. There’s no such thing as a life in between.”
― Pat Riley

“A full lifer doesn’t commit to anyone until they’ve committed to her”
― Deanna Kizis


“Love is more than flirty feelings and fun dates. It’s about what lives underneath the surface. The commitment you keep even when life gets hard and all the fuzzy feelings fade.”
― Nicole Deese

“Noncommittal is rampant among the committed.”
― Neal Shusterman


“All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I’ve ever wanted anything, ever.”
― Angela Johnson

“A true leader will refuse the title but commit to the task.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough


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ACHIEVEMENT QUOTES [BLOG#10]

ACHIEVEMENT QUOTES

“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Roy T Bennett

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy


“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Live the Life of Your Dreams
When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.”
― Roy T. Bennett


“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
― Albert Einstein

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
― Paulo Coelho


“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
― Harry S. Truman

“It shouldn’t be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder―or impossible―to lose.”
― Sarah Dessen


“Don’t mistake activity with achievement.”
― John Wooden

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
― Ronald Reagan


“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
― Horace Mann

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
― Dorothy Parker


“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
― Criss Jami


“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
― B. F. Skinner


“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
― Criss Jami

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
― Anatole France


“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson



“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
― William Faulkner

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”
― Ayn Rand


“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The roughest roads often lead to the top.”
― Christina Aguilera


“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Achievement has no color”
― Abraham Lincoln


“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.”
― idowu koyenikan


“And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.”
― Mark Haddon

“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.”
― Tim Fargo


“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.”
― Criss Jami

“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”
― Stanley Wolpert


“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”
― Chinua Achebe

“If my mind can conceive it,
My heart can believe it,
I know I can achieve it!”
― Jesse Jackson


“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”
― Joseph Joubert

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway


“You don’t cry when someone pushes you down. You get up. You get up and you fight back. And pretty soon nobody’s going to shove you anymore because they’ll see it’s not worth it.”
― Morgan Rhodes

“Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Roy T. Bennett


“Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.”
― Napoleon Hill

“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”
― Joe Abercrombie


“Nothing […] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”
― W. Clement Stone


“Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.”
― Kevin Michel

“The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”
― Colin Powell


“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.”
― Marguerite de Navarre

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
― Joan Collins


“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity’s a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”
― Tom Robbins

“But people need lift, too. People don’t get moving, they don’t soar, they don’t achieve great heights, without something buoying them up.”
― Elizabeth Wein


“Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”
― Vera Nazarian

“You are the greatest achievement of your own life.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan


“To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.”
― Kevin Michel

“As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.”
― Joseph Conrad



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MINDSET QUOTES [BLOG#6]

MINDSET QUOTES

“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
― Idowu Koyenikan


“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent

“The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.”
― Idowu Koyenikan


“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”
― Amit Ray,

“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”
― Steve Maraboli,


“There is nothing either ‘ good or bad ‘ but ‘ thinking ‘ makes it so. It is the “perception” that makes things what they are. Good and bad is in our mind. It is our mindset, our mental attitude that determines how we will interpret and respond to situations.
Erik pevernagie – (“Is that all there is ?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.”
― Steve Maraboli,


“When love is roaming in our mind, looping in the deepest fringes of our heart, undreamt spaciousness emerges, repealing the constraints of triviality and letting stifling narrowness fade away. While our mindset is besieged by a revolving burst of emotion, our world is ultimately opening up. (Cape of good hope)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“People who feel imprisoned in a pen of alienation, in a world of misfits, clobbered by unresponsiveness and indifference, may find release by ring-fencing a mental space to reflect on their mindset and to recover their true self. (“Did not expect it would ever happen there” )”
― Erik Pevernagie


“Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It’s hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.”
― David Foster Wallace,

“As we might be overwhelmed by the dictate of a mindset at odds with reality, and cannot get a grip on our unconsciousness, rather than curling up in the hive of uncomfortable expectations, let us cry out and unshackle our free will. (“Transcendental journey”)”
― Erik Pevernagie


“Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.”
― Amit Ray,

“The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.”
― Lalah Delia



A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. –Winston Churchill

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. –Brian Tracy


Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it. – John Wooden

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. –Brian Tracy


The best way to predict your future is to create it. –Abraham Lincoln

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better. –Jim Rohn


Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. –Jim Rohn

The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be. –Carol Dweck


You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not at all. –Brian Tracy

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way. –Carol Dweck


Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. –Steve Jobs

Become the change you want to see—those are words I live by. –Oprah Winfrey


The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. –Carol Dweck


“If the light in our hearts can brighten up the darkness in the mindset of our neighbors, we liberate them from a prison of distrust and prejudice. The healing glow unshackles the frozen atoms of their minds. (“Le ciel c’est l’autre”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana


“A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.”
― Vera Nazarian

“There will be times in your life when things simply have to be replaced because they are tired, broken, worn out, harmful, outdated, or irrelevant. Take an inventory of the things that no longer serve your best and highest good so you can replace them with things which do.”
― Susan C. Young


“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?”
― Onyi Anyado


The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. –Christian D. Larson

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could. –Carol Dweck


Belief in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. –Norman Vincent Peale

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty. –Norman Vincent Peale


Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. –A.A. Milne

“Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”
― Germany Kent


“If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.”
― Victor Hugo


“Quitting is never an option on the road to success. Find the way forward. If you have a positive mindset and are willing to persevere, there is little that is beyond your reach. The attitude of being ready to work even in the face of challenges and despite odds is what will make all the difference in your life.”
― Roopleen

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. –Benjamin Spock


Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. –Hal Borland

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. –Dale Carnegie


First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination. –Barack Obama

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path. –Mahatma Gandhi

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