How committed are you to your career? Are
you determined to improve yourself every day, or do you spend many days just
coasting along? If you're a student, do you take your schoolwork seriously, or
are you more interested in socializing and fraternizing? Thomas Edison, the
great American inventor, was a picture in career
development: he started inventing as a young man, and he never quit. Edison’s inventions included the motion picture camera, the
mimeograph machine, the microphone, the vote recording machine, the phonograph,
the alkaline battery, and the incandescent light bulb. All toll, he successfully
patented over 1,000 inventions. What was his secret? he explained, "I
never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by
accident. They came by work."
Now that's commitment.
If You Want to Be
Successful, Be Committed
"If you want to get better, work a little harder."
Jerry Rice
"Nothing will work unless you do."
John Wooden
"Everything works better when you’re working."
Lauren Bacall
"Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has a price. The price
is effort."
Loretta Young
"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into
them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a
dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done."
Arland Gilbert
"Whatever
you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for
men."
Colossians 3:23 NIV
This is a Test . . .
"I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment,
and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a
never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can
move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this
may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their
dreams from those who live in regret."
Anthony Robbins
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and
mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
Thomas Edison
"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a
second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had
taken the first step. With every additional step, you enhance immensely the
value of your first."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Patience and fortitude conquer all things."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are
attainable."
Thomas Buxton
And Finally . . .
Either you’re IN or you’re OUT. There’s no such thing as
in-between.
Pat Riley
Compiled and Edited by
Criswell Freeman, Psy.D
