Ron Dellums Quotes

You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards.

Just because you did something once doesn't mean anything. You have to be willing in your heart to begin again every day. The minute I'm not willing to do that, I will retire.

I try to be the same guy every day, no matter the situation, no matter the adversity.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.

The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Not just when its easy. All the time.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

I will work day after day like I did my whole life ... I'm not going to change anything.

No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.

Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.

It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.

I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily... and I'm reliable.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.