Mario Andretti - LeBron James - Haile Gebrselassie - Charles Dickens - George Eliot -
Desire is the key to motivation: but its determination and committed to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti
Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There’s that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not? LeBron James
Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there. Haile Gebrselassie
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable – when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us – that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss