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• The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

  DeForest Soaries

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Humbled, Vibrant, Federal Government, Charter

• Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Iraq

• 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.

  Theresa Helburn

  Topics in Commitment, Work

• We’ve both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.

  Willie Aames

  Topics in Commitment

• Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone’s commitment and intelligence.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Topics in Commitment

• We know the threats – from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Threats, Work Together

• And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Assert, Obligations, Newborn

• The good news is that we are making progress. The bad news is that we’re doing too little and moving much too slowly.

  Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr.

  Topics in Commitment, Progress

• You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.

  Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr.

  Topics in Commitment, Life

• I mean, you have to be able – you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can’t do it by yourself.

  James Cameron

  Topics in Commitment

• Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Commitment, Justice, Sacrifice, Suffering

• There’s no turning back…We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Commitment

• We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Topics in Commitment

• The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Topics in Commitment

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It’s where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It’s sort of a commitment that I’ve made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  Madonna

  Topics in Commitment, Country

• To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Commitment

• 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.

  Rollo May

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• 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

  Topics in Commitment, Future

• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Hypocrisy

• A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back — but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Commitment, Ideals, Service