Commitment to Others Quotes

Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.

The readiness to sacrifice one's personal work and, if necessary, even one's life for others shows its most highly developed form in the Aryan race. The greatness of the Aryan is not based on his intellectual powers; but rather on his willingness to devote all his faculties to the service of his community.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and its own. It gathers around them because it understands how necessary, how joyful, and how fearful this joining is. These lovers, pledging themselves to one another "until death," are giving themselves away, and they are joined by this as no law or contract could join them.

Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.

My brother-in-law skipped work to get me to training. Our family get us through. We'd get the train, a bus and sometimes even walk to training.

As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them.

The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.

The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me. That is one of the great things about sports, and frankly, football really does instill that.

He does much who loves much.

We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.

There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.