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Letter "C" » Commitment
«A promise must never be broken»
«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.»
Author: Mario Andretti
(Race driver)
| About:
Commitment,
Desire,
Success
| Keywords:
commitment, determination, enable, excellence, key, motivation, pursuit, unrelenting
«Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Commitment,
Compromise
| Keywords:
compromise, ending, retaining, The Sacrifice
«An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.»
«All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Commitment,
Government
| Keywords:
barter, bartering, barters, benefit, compromise, enjoyment, founded, prudent
«Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Commitment,
Compromise,
Politics
| Keywords:
expedient, Expedients, party politics, roof, statesmanship, temporary expedient, umbrella, umbrellas, unwise
«Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.»
«An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.»
«Better a broken promise than none at all.»
«All promise outruns performance.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Commitment
| Keywords:
outruns, performance
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