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Commitment is a state of dedication and devotion to something

• Commitment: The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.  Oxford Dictionary
• Commitment: The attitude of someone who works very hard to do or support something. Merriam Webster
• Commitment: The state of being emotionally or intellectually devoted, as to a belief, a course of action, or another person. The American Heritage Dictionary
• Commitment: A willingness to give your time and energy to something that you believe in, or a promise or firm decision to do something.  Dictionary.com
• Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication…I call that line commitment. Jeremy Aldana
• Dedication,  Loyalty,  Devotion,  Love,  Perseverance,  Responsibility

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To commit means there’s no turning back and no bailing out…

• When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.  Paulo Coelho
• If you’re not gonna go all the way, why go at all?  Joe Namath
• It’s one thing to make a pronouncement in a moment of inspiration about what you intend to manifest in your life or what kind of person you intend to become. It’s quite another thing to make a commitment to holding that vision regardless of what difficulties or obstacles may surface. Holding the vision involves an unwillingness to compromise what you’re visualizing for yourself. It means being willing to suffer through criticism and what appears to be an uncooperative universe. Wayne Dyer
• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.  Peter F. Drucker
• If you don’t make a total commitment to whatever you’re doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It’s tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on. Lou Holtz
• When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word. Paulo Coelho
• Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down. David McNally
• In order to ‘hold fast’ to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice. Sheena Iyengar
• 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
• There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There’s no such thing as life in between. Pat Riley

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…and no exceptions or excuses…

• Successful people adhere to the ‘no exceptions rule’ when it comes to their daily disciplines. Once you make a 100% commitment to something, there are no exceptions. It’s a done deal. Non-negotiable. Case closed! Over and out. Jack Canfield
• There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. Ken Blanchard
• If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. Jim Rohn
• The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse. Sir John Marks Templeton
• Go deep into your study of people, and you’ll discover unsuccessful people suffer a mind- deadening thought disease. We call this disease excusitis. Every failure has this disease in its advanced form. And most ‘average’ persons have at least a mild case of it. David Schwartz
• Beware of the “buts,” because they do just that: They grind your butt into the couch, doing nothing. Excuses never made anyone rich, and we all have them. Stop being like everyone and start taking action. Make a choice today that can change the course of your life forever. MJ DeMarco
• 99% is a bitch. 100% is a breeze. Jack Canfield
• If you only have a 99% commitment you might respond with: “Hmmm… You know, you’re right. We do deserve a day off. One day won’t hurt. And, wham. You’re screwed. Habit installation thwarted. Ten days later you wonder what happened to your meditation practice. The solution? We’ve got to identify what’s really important in our lives. Then pick one thing we’re absolutely, 100% committed to doing and make our commitment non- negotiable. Brian Johnson
• There is but one degree of commitment; total. Arnie Sherr
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… no matter how you feel

• The gift of self-discipline is that it has the power to take you beyond the reasoning of temporary emotion to freedom. Think of how empowered you’ve felt on occasions when you haven’t given in to the ‘I don’t feel like it’ syndrome and honoured your commitment to yourself. What does not feeling like it have to do with it? The combination of love for something with the willingness to do what it takes to practice it—discipline—results in freedom. Michael Beckwith
• To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments. Brian Koslow

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To commit is to make a promise you intend to keep

• He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Never promise more than you can perform. Publilius Syrus
• Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. German Proverb
• A promise must never be broken. Alexander Hamilton
• Promise a lot and give even more. Anthony J. D’Angelo
• All promise outruns performance. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. Hannah Arendt
• Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you. Orebela Gbenga
• Honor your commitments with integrity. Les Brown

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Realise the power of absolute commitment

• One-pointed intention means holding your attention to the intended outcome with such unbending purpose that you absolutely refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the focused quality of your attention. There is a total and complete exclusion of all obstacles from your consciousness. You are able to maintain an unshakable serenity while being committed to your goal with intense passion. Deepak Chopra
• Realise the power of a single choice acted upon immediately and with total conviction. Tony Robbins
• Commitment creates a powerful radiant energy that activates all sorts of “miracles” within and around you. Susan Jeffers
• If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life? Harvey Fierstein
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
• It’s not how physically strong you are that matters, it’s the level of commitment that you hold in your heart that will get you through the hard parts. Scott Rogers
• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. William Hutchison Murray
• Our job is not to figure out the ‘how’. The ‘how’ will show up out of the commitment and belief in the ‘what. Jack Canfield
• There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Ralph Marston
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Life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who commit

• I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret. Tony Robbins

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When you commit to what you want to do, the universe conspires to help

• The moment you are very clear about what you want to do, things happen. Life comes to your aid—a friend, a relation, a teacher, a grandmother, somebody helps you. But if you are afraid to try because your father may turn you out, then you are lost. Life never comes to the aid of those who merely yield to some demand out of fear. But if you say, ‘This is what I really want to do and I am going to pursue it,’ then you will find that something miraculous takes place. You may have to go hungry, struggle to get through, but you will be a worthwhile human being, not a mere copy, and that is the miracle of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• 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 events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. W.H. Murray
• As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the ‘how’ will reveal itself. Tony Robbins
• The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle… when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it. Michael Neill
• When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho
• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary: new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with license of a higher order of beings. Henry David Thoreau
• Struggle ends where commitment begins. Sumner Davenport

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Commitment turns dreams into reality

• Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the “right stuff” to turn our dreams into reality. James Womack
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Commitment creates success and mastery

• Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. Denis Waitley
• 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
• Do what you say you’re going to do. This is the single most powerful behavior for success. Danielle LaPorte
• The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You’re willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what’s working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way. Tony Robbins
• To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you’re doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off. John Eliot, Ph.D.
• Success,  Mastery

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Commitment creates lasting change

• Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. Abraham Lincoln
• The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable.  With a firm
• enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. Margaret Halsey
• It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. Ralph Ellison
• You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward. Amelia Earhart
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Commitment awakens motivation and inspiration

• By committing to taking regular action to express your gifts and passions in your life, you will also be consciously creating the motivation that will power you forward on your chosen path. With the motivation that builds through positive and continuous action, and the bursts of inspiration that come through the steady use of your talents, you can achieve anything you want in your life. Amanda Harvey
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Keeping commitment is a form of self-mastery…

• Commitment is a way of training the mind and making it obey you. You become the master of your mind. Who wants to break the commitment? Your mind. The mind pops up, “Oh, I don’t want to do it,” and you give up. Then wherever you go, whatever you do, the mind will have that same tendency. Think before you leap. Once you leap, that’s it. Stick to it, whatever it is. Your dynamic will should be applied. “Yes, I decided to do it. I am going to do it. I will never back out.” The dynamic decision itself will help you achieve success in that. Sri Swami Satchidananda
• To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments. Brian Koslow

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… and builds personal integrity

• The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity. Stephen Covey
• Do you honour your commitments? If you have a bunch of broken commitments over the last day/week/month/year/decade, you’re energetically drowning in the weight of that lack of integrity. Brian Johnson
• To develop integrity, quit making so many commitments and really check in before you make your next commitment and confirm to yourself that you will, for sure, follow through. Brian Johnson
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Keeping commitments builds trust

• Quality relationships are built on principles – especially the principle of trust. And trust grows out of trustworthiness, out of the character to make and keep commitments, to share resources, to be caring and responsible, to belong, to love unconditionally. Stephen Covey
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Strengthen your commitments by making them public

• Not surprisingly, commitment is especially potent when made in front of other people. A University of Scranton study found that people who made public New Year’s resolutions were a remarkable ten times more likely to succeed at their goal.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Tell others of your commitments, since they’ll help hold you accountable. Steve Pavlina

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Strengthen your commitment by being selective in the ones you make.

• The advantage to making fewer promises is that the promises you do make will mean more to you and to the people you are promising. You’ll take extra care to attend to those promises that mean the most to you and those you love. Richard Carlson
• Commitments are things you keep no matter what happens to make them difficult to keep. Commitments are powerful. So be very selective when using them. Steve Chandler
• There’s no limit to the amount of things that you can be interested in. However, nothing much is likely to come out of an interest unless it turns into a commitment. Go through the things that you’re interested in doing and identify which of those rise to the level of commitments. Mark Forster
• Cut back on commitments that aren’t that meaningful. This way, you can make room for the things that are. Laura Stack
• Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, most people give it entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such. John-Roger and Peter McWilliams

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Summon the courage to commit

• The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments. Lyndon B. Johnson
• Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Commit yourself to what is good for you

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

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Commit yourself to life

• Let today be the day that you become committed in being, in doing, in getting, achieving, in experiencing. Let today be the day that you are committed to being the change you wish to see and living the life you wish to live.  Steve Maraboli

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Commit yourself to your goals and dreams

• A fantasy is a dream, a desire is an inclination, a goal is a commitment of the will… You never have a goal without a real commitment. Tom Morris
• It’s amazing what happens to your self-confidence when you get eyeball to eyeball with yourself and you forcefully tell yourself what you’re going to do. Whatever your dream is, look at yourself in the mirror and declare that you are indeed going to achieve it. Jack Canfield
• Focus on your vision and keep going until you hit the finish line. Don’t be one of the people who believe in their vision at first but then give up. See it through, no matter how long it takes. Understand that obstacles are just part of the game. Whatever you imagine, you can achieve. Once you realize this truth, no one is going to be able to stop you. Russell Simmons
• Concentrate all your energy and intensity, without distraction, on the successful completion of your current project. Finish what you start. Denis Waitley
• Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. Leon Suenes
• If you choose to follow the path of your dreams, commit yourself to it. Accept your path. Paulo Coelho
• A warrior of light always commits himself. He is enslaved to his dream but he is free in his steps. Paulo Coelho
• 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
• Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life’s most important battle–he defeated the fear of trying.  Robert H. Schuller
• Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one- thousand percent! Brian Tracy
• Dreams have a habit of coming true when you least expect it – never lose faith, even the impossible dreams can become a reality if you commit to making them so. Deb Ivarsson
• If you want to access your full range of power, then commit to dreaming about your ideal life. Your subconscious and articulated desires are veins of gold that lead to whatever you want to call prosperity. Danielle LaPorte
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Commit yourself to your mission and vision

• It is not discipline, willpower, or pressure from others that facilitates adherence to a challenging course of action. Rather, it is the freedom to choose among alternatives, the personal commitment to a mission, and the willingness to take responsibility for the consequences of our decisions that steels the will and emboldens the spirit. Neil Fiore
• Have a clear vision to bring clarity and focus to everything you do. Your vision allows you to decide what to do, as much as it helps you to decide what not to do. That is, your vision will allow you to decide which commitments to take on and which commitments to say “no” to. Marelisa Fabrega
• How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to? Tony Robbins
• The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. Vision will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do whatever it takes to achieve excellence. Only vision allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. Vision has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our vision is what we become in life. Tony Dungy
• You get what you think about, whether you want it or not. Commit to thinking about what you want, rather than how impossible or difficult that dream may seem. Wayne Dyer
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Commit yourself to your values and purpose

• Modern life has made us people of attachment rather than people of commitment. Indeed, many people have found that it is difficult to  tell the difference between attachment and commitment in their own lives.  Yet attachment leads farther and farther into entrapment.  Commitment, though it may sometimes feel constricting, will ultimately lead to greater degrees of freedom.  Both involve in the moment an experience of holding, sometimes against the flow of events or against temptation.  One can distinguish between the two in most situations by noticing over time whether one has moved through this activity or this relationship closer to freedom or closer to bondage.  Attachment is reflex, an automatic response which often may not reflect our deepest good.  Commitment is a conscious choice, to align ourselves with our most genuine values and our sense of purpose.  Rachel Naomi Remen
• The ability to stand by one’s principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one’s belief – that is what matters, that is the difference between a contribution and a commitment.  Howard W. Hunter
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Commit yourself to your decisions and choices

• Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. Tony Robbins
• Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. Tony Robbins
• Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. Tony Robbins
• Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make. Kent Nerburn
• It is in your moment of decision that your destiny is shaped. Tony Robbins
• When you make a choice, you change the future. Deepak Chopra
• After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it. Alan Cohen
• A man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage. Rollo May
• Any person can do almost anything they want to if they make a decision to commit to that course, starting now. Tony Robbins
• Once you have made the decision and have started what you are going to do, put the “what if’s” aside and do it with commitment. Meir Liraz
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Commit yourself to taking action

• Commitment is an act, not a word. Jean-Paul Sartre
• Intent reveals desire; action reveals commitment. Steve Maraboli
• Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. Marcia Wieder
• Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world! Joel Barker
• The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life, and the procedure, the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart
• You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered- down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. Caroline Myss
• Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms, carry out your plan. Paul Meyer
• A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. Tony Robbins
• Commitment is a line you must cross. . . . it is the difference between dreaming and doing. Bernie Fuchs
• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.  Zig Ziglar
• When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable. Greg Anderson
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Commit yourself to a cause outside yourself

• Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one’s talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice. Sidney M. Jourard

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Commit yourself to love

• Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice. Rob Liano
• A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts. Mary E. Hunt
• Fill your life with love. Rather than waiting for other people to provide the love we desire, we must be a vision and a source of love. The starting point or foundation of a life filled with love is the desire and commitment to be a source of love. Richard Carlson
• The starting point or foundation of a life filled with love is the desire and commitment to be a source of love. Richard Carlson
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Commit yourself to the well-being of yourself and others

• Love is when I am concerned with your relationship with your own life, rather than with your relationship to mine. . . . there must be a commitment to each other’s well-being. Most people who say they have a commitment don’t; they have an attachment.  Commitment means, “I am going to stick with you and support your experience of well-being.”  Attachment means, “I am stuck without you.”  Stewart Emery
• Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself. Steve Maraboli
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Commit yourself to your relationships

• We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. Cornel West
• To commit to a loving person for five minutes is easy. To commit to loving a person for the rest of your life, after you have met them, is a strong commitment. But when you commit to loving a person before you meet them and for the rest of your life, you have made the strongest commitment one can make to a relationship. Tom Houck
• Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a relationship, a business or a hobby. Neil Strauss
• Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. Robert Sternberg
• If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation. Madeleine L’Engle
• Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship. M. Scott Peck
• I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well-being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship. Bell Hooks
• In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. Robert Sexton
• 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
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Commit yourself to excellence

• The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour. Vince Lombardi
• 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
• Commit today to becoming a master. Ask yourself what are you best at? What things do you do that when you do them you feel happy and at peace–and sense your creativity and gifts pouring out of you. We get the life we’ve settled for. We get the brains we’ve earned. Start looking for those things in your work (and life) that you can become a Picasso at. Life shifts once you do. Robin Sharma
• Commit to being “Mozart-Level Good” at your work. Robin Sharma
• Find something that you’re really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can. Chris Evert
• Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. Paul J. Meyer
• The quality of each man’s life is the full measure of that man’s personal commitment to excellence and to victory. Vince Lombardi
• There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one’s maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. Buck Rodgers
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Commit yourself to learning

• A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously. Nathaniel Branden
• Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it. Brian Tracy
• If we truly want to create a life that is grounded in basic well-being, we must decide to commit ourselves to learning what it takes to thrive instead of merely survive. Susan Velasquez
• Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day.  Don’t just get through it; get from it.  Learn from it.  Let the day teach you.  Join the university of life.  What a difference that will make in your future.  Commit yourself to learning.  Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge.  Get it.  Don’t miss it.  Jim Rohn
• People with a high level of personal mastery approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. They do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning. Peter Senge
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Commit yourself to your work

• If you can find a way to use your signature strengths at work often, and also see your work as contributing to the greater good, you have a calling. A calling is a passionate commitment to work for its own sake. Martin Seligman
• When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible. Nancy Coey
• Work has to include our deepest values and passions and feelings and commitments, or it’s not work, it’s just a job. Matthew Fox
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Commit yourself to play

• A firm commitment to guilt-free play will recharge your batteries, creating renewed motivation, creativity, and energy for all the other areas of your life. Neil Fiore
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Commit yourself to what is important

• Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant. Stephen Covey
• Some people spend 90% of their time organizing their time. Some tackle to-do lists peppered with insignificance that stretch a mile long.  And still, there are others who refuse to do anything at all.  As for me, I am committed to doing one thing a day, and that has made all the difference.  What one thing will you do today?  Marc and Angel Chernoff
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Commit yourself to doing one thing at a time

• Block out periods of time where you commit to doing one thing at a time. Be present in what you are doing. Concentrate. Be in the moment. Even the mundane can become enjoyable. And you’ll be amazed how quickly and efficiently you’ll get things done. Richard Carlson
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Commit yourself to joy and doing what you love

• Do what you love. If you don’t know what brings you joy, ask, “What is my joy?” As you commit to your joy, you will attract an avalanche of joyful things because you are radiating joy. Rhonda Byrne
• Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm – from the Greek, filled with God’ – is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself. Julia Cameron
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Commit yourself to planning

• Commit to investing from twenty to thirty minutes a week in weekly planning. Follow these steps as you plan: Write down your key roles. Select one or two of your highest priorities to focus on this week. Look at the week and schedule your tasks and appointments. Stephen Covey
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Commit to working together

• Individual commitment to a group effort–that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi
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Commit yourself to truth

• Commitment to the truth means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events. Peter Senge
• Every decision we make, every stop we take, must be informed by our commitment to living a life that is true and honest and authentic to ourselves and ourselves alone. Robin Sharma
• Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. Aesop
• There is one basic saying in zen that one can rely on completely: Walk through all fear no matter what, committed to spiritual truth, no matter what. David R. Hawkins
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Commit yourself to your journey

• For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself. Deepak Chopra
• Success is not only a goal. It is a journey. When you commit yourself to the journey, the goal is surely there to be attained. Sakshi Chetana
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Commit yourself to your ideas

• If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea. Richard Hofstadter
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Commit yourself to doing meditation

• It is virtually impossible, and senseless anyway, to commit yourself to a daily meditation practice without some view of why you are doing it, what its value might be in your life, a sense of why this might be your way and not just another tilting at imaginary windmills. Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Commit yourself to being present

• Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Presence,  Live in the present

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Balance commitment with pleasure and humour

• My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. Jane Rule
• Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up. Michael J. Gelb
• Pleasure,  Humour

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Commit yourself to noticing and appreciating what is good

• Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing and being grateful. Make it your life commitment and you will stand in awe of what happens in your life. Rhonda Byrne
• Appreciation

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Commit yourself to acts of self-control

• Other studies have found that committing to any small, consistent act of self- control can increase overall willpower. And while these small self- control exercises may seem inconsequential, they appear to improve the willpower challenges we care about most, including focusing at work, taking good care of our health, resisting temptation, and feeling more in control of our emotions. Kelly McGonigal
• Self-control

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Commit yourself to living an authentic life

• The most important gift we can give ourselves is the commitment to living our authentic life. Robin Sharma
• Be who you are

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Commit yourself to non-attachment

• Today I will commit myself to detachment. I will allow myself and those around me the freedom to be as they are. I will not rigidly impose my idea of how things should be. I will not force solutions on problems, thereby creating new problems. I will participate in everything with detached involvement. Deepak Chopra
• Non-attachment

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Commit yourself to the creative process

• We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment. Rollo May
• Creativity

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• Always remember the distinction between contribution and commitment. Take the matter of bacon and eggs. The chicken makes a contribution. The pig makes a commitment. John Mack Carter
• If you want a man who’s committed, go look in a mental hospital. Alexandra Potter
• I think in most cases the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.  Marc Maron
• My girlfriend say’s that I’m afraid of commitment. Well she’s not my girlfriend, more a wife.   Stewart Francis
• 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
• When you have bacon and eggs for breakfast the chicken makes a contribution the pig makes a commitment.  Fred Shero

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