Top 100 Commit Quotes
#1. When you truly make the decision, it becomes real. You fully commit and develop a belief that ensures that it is not a matter of if you will achieve your goals, but a matter of when.
Austin Netzley
#2. Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short-circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency. Across the West, this was the most glorious boon of World War I.
Jonah Goldberg
#3. Destiny is not to be trifled with. Do not commit the tragic error of satisfying present appetite at the cost of future fulfilment
Russell Hoban
#4. Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.
Mark Twain
#6. I don't know what's more nerve-wracking, job insecurity or job security. There's opportunities and things you compromise with both. When I had endless freedom of schedule, or when I commit to a movie for two months, then I could manage my music and go on the road.
Juliette Lewis
#7. Just like many Popish Plotters before them, these had promptly begun to "commit suicide" in the Tower. One had even managed the heroic feat of cutting his own throat all the way to the vertebrae!
Neal Stephenson
#8. Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
Bill Hybels
#9. Whenever she came across lines she liked, she'd mark them in pencil and commit them to memory as if they were Holy Writ.
Haruki Murakami
#11. In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.
Imelda Marcos
#12. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.
Terry Tempest Williams
#13. What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?
Robert D. Kaplan
#14. I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to that as a tenet of the recording methodology, then I will bust my ass for you.
Steve Albini
#15. Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.
Jim Hightower
#16. Think deeply to find the purpose of life but commit deeply to achieve success in life.
Debasish Mridha
#17. There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#18. How the Germans can remain allies with the Turks is beyond me. No European nation would ever commit the sorts of crimes that this regime is blithely committing right now.
Chris Bohjalian
#19. When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.
Cory Doctorow
#20. I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.
Lionel Messi
#21. Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
T. S. Eliot
#22. And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
Jennifer Garner
#23. Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.
Anonymous
#24. Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'
Amanda Seyfried
#25. Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.
Teri Hatcher
#26. One employee missed an event to witness the birth of his child. Musk fired off an e-mail saying, "That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where your priorities are. We're changing the world and changing history, and you either commit or you don't."*
Ashlee Vance
#27. For your love to stand the test of time, you must commit to behaviors that protect your marriage, in spite of how you feel about your spouse on that particular day.
Jennifer Jeanne Patterson
#28. To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per day. Plus, writing is my job, and I need to write to eat, so I'm highly motivated to get up and get to work!
Victoria Laurie
#29. The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.
Joseph Prince
#30. It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo
#31. Then there were the general moral duties: not to commit adultery or fornication, not to stay out late at night after 8 p.m. frequenting inns and brothels, and not to play cards except during the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Jasper Ridley
#32. It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.
Dorothea Dix
#33. Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.
Bill Crawford
#34. If I'm gonna commit suicide, I'll go out eatin' pussy to death.
Dave Mustaine
#35. While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.
Ken Salazar
#37. A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
Wendy Shalit
#38. I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.
Anna Akhmatova
#39. The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Donal Henahan
#40. It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.
J.D. Salinger
#41. That is the true crime that fairy tales commit - making people like me think that we counted in this world. I was neither hot nor in shape. I was just a normal boy in an extraordinary world, and stories like that, no matter how misleading and destructive, would always appeal to people like me.
John Goode
#42. Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.
Mother Teresa
#43. I wish I'd become a professional dancer sooner. I did other jobs - like baking - while dancing part-time, and didn't commit until I was 29.
Anton Du Beke
#44. I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.
Jerry Seinfeld
#45. Sometimes the hardest thing within doing something challenging is deciding to commit to do it.
Andi Jones
#46. This doesn't mean that they commit themselves to the view that this is all there is. Many scientists (including me) think that this is the case, but other scientists are religious, and believe that what is observed in nature is at least in part a result of God's will.
Steven Weinberg
#47. Newsflash; not everything that
drops from your gorgeous dumb mouth is
the truth." There's a pause. "Ah, shit. I just called you gorgeous. Now I have to commit seppuku."
"Don't you dare," I mumble into her neck.
Sara Wolf
#48. It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#49. I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.
Derek Landy
#50. If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.
Robert Mueller
#51. No one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#52. ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
Ambrose Bierce
#53. An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders.
Stendhal
#54. There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
Virginia Woolf
#55. I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.
Paul Walker
#56. It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me.
Mary Sage Nguyen
#57. Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.
Martin Luther
#58. I make little distinction betwee those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
David Gemmell
#59. Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.
Nancy Lublin
#60. Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
Lucretius
#61. Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.
Lee H. Hamilton
#62. Every ship sailing the sea of life needs to have the divine Pilot on board; but when storms arise, when tempests threaten, many persons push their Pilot overboard, and commit their bark into the hand of finite man, or try to steer it themselves.
Ellen G. White
#63. Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#64. The commanding general publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death.
Ambrose Burnside
#65. From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for ...
Jo Labadie
#66. People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions.
Eric Schneiderman
#67. It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.
Stephen Hawking
#68. Life without knowing your destiny leads to "rat races", depression and frustration, and attempt to commit suicide
Sunday Adelaja
#69. Turning pro is like kicking a drug habit or stopping drinking. It's a decision, a decision to which we must re-commit every day.
Steven Pressfield
#70. I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.
Queen Latifah
#71. Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.
Frank Herbert
#72. God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.
Matt Chandler
#73. The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests.
Dennis Prager
#74. There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.
Bertrand Russell
#75. I suddenly saw her quite differently. I saw that she was a person. Not my mother. She had thought it all out. She had wanted to commit suicide. She would never commit suicide. On that night I grew up. Or so I would like to believe.
Doris Lessing
#76. Every day I think, 'Can I commit?' I think I can and that I will.
Scott Baio
#77. People commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.
Li Ang
#78. The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.
Angelina Jolie
#79. Curb your speech, restrain your mind, commit no evil deed.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#80. It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.
John Sununu
#81. People think that those who commit suicide are against life - they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves.
Osho
#82. I am a chameleon when it comes the way I dress. I am constantly changing it up, and I really can't commit to one thing because dressing for the day or for an event is really a mood thing. I like variety, and I don't mean just designers, I mean mixing the high-end garments and the cheaper clothing.
Darby Stanchfield
#83. Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.
Henry Ward Beecher
#84. When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.
Philipp Meyer
#85. I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
Rachel Kushner
#86. Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
Charles Duhigg
#87. If you are united with Christ today, the number of sins you will commit in your lifetime is a finite number, and they were all paid for in full before you emerged from your mother's womb.
Barbara R. Duguid
#88. Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
Dorothy Thompson
#89. Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.
Piers Paul Read
#90. A man has to choose. This is where lies his strength: in the power of his decisions. If you choose to follow the path of your dreams, commit yourself to it. Accept your path.
Paulo Coelho
#91. I believe that two people can meet and enrich each other's lives. I'd say that about my parents. But I think it is harder and harder to commit to only one person in a lifetime.
Ivana Trump
#92. Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide.
Bertie Ahern
#94. Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.
Brian Tracy
#95. Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
Machado De Assis
#96. Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
Joe Baca
#97. The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court
Hubie Brown
#98. Found a book called Thriving Not Surviving in a box on the street. I stood there, flipping through it, unwilling to commit.
Jenny Offill
#99. When we are happy to turn from evil because it is ugly, and causes us distress, then we condone it and become party to its continuance. Little by little, we become as guilty of it as those who commit the act - because we have told them by our silence that it is acceptable.
Anne Perry
#100. Every one of Dad's colleagues would eventually commit suicide, most by gunshot to the head, and every woman in their circle except for my mother would become a dysfunctional alcoholic. But in the fifties, they were all riding high.
Tim Gunn
