"When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment."
Read quote
13 likes
Commitment quotes
Commitment
2.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Commitment
Browse quotes that often appear alongside commitment — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Commitment quotes (page 9 of 108)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you.""
Read quote
13 likes
"Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility."
Read quote
13 likes
"Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment."
Read quote
13 likes
"Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers."
Read quote
13 likes
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
Read quote
13 likes
"I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work."
Read quote
12 likes
"Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows."
Read quote
12 likes
"In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical."
Read quote
12 likes
"Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept."
Read quote
12 likes
"I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong"
Read quote
12 likes
"Larry is like a son to me and we enjoy a most wonderful relationship, one with meaning, dignity, pride, understanding and purpose. But more importantly, one of mutual respect. Larry and I both pride ourselves on being men of our word and when we say we will be together for life it is not just convention but is said with feeling and commitment that comes from struggling together, growing together and being family."
Read quote
12 likes
"It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western European countries) are precisely those that, in the late twentieth century, invented a new status (‘illegal’) in order to deprive some of their residents of access to equality, human rights, and democracy.I am honored to lend my name to PICUM’s campaign to end the use of the term ‘illegal’ and to challenge the whole concept of illegality as a status."
Read quote
12 likes
"Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant."
Read quote
12 likes
"It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use."
Read quote
12 likes
"In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom, and justice. Our debt to them can be paid only by our own recommitment to preserving those same ideals."
Read quote
12 likes
"Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"
Read quote
12 likes
"This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, 'love of fate,' love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art."
Read quote
12 likes
"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."
Read quote
11 likes
"Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism."
Read quote
11 likes