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Commitment is the state of being bound--emotionally, intellectually, or both--to a particular person or course of action. Commitment starts with a choice (ideally thoughtfully made and aligned with virtuous purpose) and is sustained by dedication and perseverance. Commitment is active – it is expressed and realized in our thoughts and actions.


Commitment is more than just obligation – it is a giving of ourselves, sometimes at high personal cost or risk, to a person or purpose that we find worthy of that gift. Like other forms of giving, commitment can produce some of life's greatest satisfactions.

Commitment

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Determination declares whatever is required or demanded will be satisfied to the effect the desired result become a possessed property achieved through the force thereof.

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Integrated Gospel Perceptions http://
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Love is the Root of Divine Providence. Every virtue is the fruit of Love. Through Love we receive every good and perfect thing. God is Love.

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Integrated Gospel Perceptions http://
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The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

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Selected Works of Kedar Joshi
Kedar Joshi
"Quotations – General"
http://works.bepress.com/kedar_joshi/23/
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If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.

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Selected Works of Kedar Joshi
Kedar Joshi
"Quotations – General"
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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. Nelson Mandela

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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
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“My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'” Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi
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You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

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"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way." — Abraham Lincoln

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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love"

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The Strength Of Love
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not unconditional, it is just a hypothesis," and so on. It really is a most arrogant position. I think that the only way to be honest and expose yourself to criticism is to state clearly and dogmatically where you are. You must take the risk and have a position.

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Conversations with Žižek
by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly
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Published by Polity Press , Cambridge , 2004
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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Women get married expecting to change their husbands, while men get married expecting their wives will never change.

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In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.

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The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to life.

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Starbucks - The Way I See It #76
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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Barack Obama
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

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Frank Lloyd Wright
http://quotations.about.com/cs/inspirationquotes/a/Commitment7.htm
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

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Walter Cronkite
http://quotations.about.com/cs/inspirationquotes/a/Commitment7.htm
Viewed on April 8, 2008
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Until One is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that 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 incidents and meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come his or her way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

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Goethe
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might

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Marcus T. Cicero
http://www.answers.com/commitment?cat=biz-fin
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

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Thomas Carlyle
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You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

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Les Brown
http://www.answers.com/commitment?cat=biz-fin
Viewed on April 17, 2008
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Commitment is caring deeply about something or someone. It is deciding carefully what you want to do, then giving it 100%, holding nothing back. You give your all to a friendship, a task, or something you believe in. You finish what you start. You keep your promises.

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Unknown
"What are the virtues?"
http://www.virtuesproject.com/virtueslist.html#commitment
Viewed on April 11, 2008
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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

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Jone Johnson Lewis
"Quotations to inspire and challenge "
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_commitment.html
Viewed on April 11, 2008
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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.

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Jone Johnson Lewis
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http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_commitment.html
Viewed on April 12, 2008
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed - that can make of this earth a garden.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Kahlil Gibran
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Viewed on April 5, 2008
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