commitment

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart.

The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.

Love me please I love you I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do I give up my whole self to it.

I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never for whatever reason turn his back on life.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?

He did it with all his heart and prospered.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception and except under very special circumstances it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.