A Quote by Lord Byron

In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

Lord Byron

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Commitment Dash Hopes Potential Selves Thousand

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Lord Byron
British - Poet
January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824

Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential.

Denis Waitley

A company's commitment to searching out potential blockbusters and then investing in marketing to convert potential to reality attracts and retains top scientists and creatives.

John Quelch

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

Hayao Miyazaki

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

Charles Dickens

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.

Wynton Marsalis

I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

Helene Aylon

We take a dash of sexiness, a dash of spice, and blend it in with awesomeness and glory. Then we dance.

Drew Chadwick

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Euripides

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.

William Tecumseh Sherman

You've got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you're as good as the best ? you don't have to be better than the rest.

Denis Waitley

Perhaps we've got so involved in the false selves we project on social media that we've forgotten that our real selves, our private selves, are different, are worth saving.

Frankie Boyle

It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.

Donald T. Phillips

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Peter Drucker

My commitment to the Olympics is not a political commitment. It's not a commitment to any particular social system or cultural idea. It is a commitment to sport.

Herbert Hainer

When you die there's going to be a tombstone. It's going to have your name. It's gonna have the year you're born and the day you die. In between there's going to be a dash. And that dash is going to represent everything you did in your life, good and bad. That's how you're remembered. What do you want your dash to represent?