“I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.”

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.

While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

Authentic love can be unconditional and still require reciprocity, respect, and mutual willingness.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge.

What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Bull markets have valuation froth and bull markets have commitment forth. Now just by valuation froth, bull markets do not end.