Commitment is the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.. It is also known as a pledge or an undertaking. A commitment is never supposed to be broken, if it is broken; that means it was never a commitment rather was just a pretention and lying.
There are lot of examples in Indian history and Hinduism, as to how orthodox people were in keeping their commitment. There are many legends saying how a commitment was considered more important to anything else in this world. Some of the famous examples are: Lord Rama's commitment given to his father Dasharatha in Ramayana for renouncing the luxury of a king and taking asetic life in forests for 14 years. The next great one comes in Mahabharata era, where Bhishma had given commitment to his father Shantanu for staying unmarried throughout his life.
Commitment may refer to:
- Promise, or personal commitment
- Contract, a legally binding exchange of promises
- Brand commitment
- Involuntary commitment, the use of legal means or forms to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum or psychiatric ward
- Ontological commitment, belief in an ontology in philosophy
- Organizational commitment
- Commitment scheme, in cryptography
- Commit (data management), to make changes permanent in data management
- Kingsbury Commitment, the beginning of AT&T's monopoly in the telephone industry
- Climate commitment, a model of climate change
- Yue Ding: Commitment, an album by Michael Wong
- Commitment (Seal album)
- Commitment (Lucky Boys Confusion album)
- "Commitment" (song), a 1998 song by LeAnn Rimes
Famous quotes containing the word commitment:
“Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.”
—Michael Lewis (late 20th century)
“We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“American families, however, without exception, experience a double message in our society, one that claims a commitment to families and stresses the importance of raising bright, stable, productive citizens, yet remains so bound by an ideal of “rugged individualism” that parents receive little support in their task from the public or private sectors.”
—Bernice Weissbourd (20th century)