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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom. If you do not commit to the path, the path cannot commit to you. A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' -the pig was 'committed It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself. It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betaken [i. e. , committed] to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning. A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it. Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. If you commit a crime, you're guilty. Honor your commitments with integrity. A clever man commits no minor blunders. The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime. Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance. There's no abiding success without commitment. There's always a way -- if you're committed. Reality forms around a commitment. A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises. My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. He has committed the crime who profits by it. The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide. Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it. But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity. Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls. When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, whatever it takes! He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit. The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them. Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers. I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places. Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider. The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour. Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it. Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown. The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. |





