The 17 Essential Qualities Of A Team Player: Becoming The Kind Of Person Every Team Wants

by John C. Maxwell

Jonas Salk dedicated eight years of his life to defeating polio. But his real desire was to help people, which he further demonstrated by never patenting the vaccine he created. In that way, it could be used to help people around the globe. You could say that the team he was most committed to was mankind.

But true commitment doesn't work that way. It's not an emotion; it's a character quality that enables us to reach our goals. Human emotions go up and down all the time, but commitment has to be rock solid.

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

Commitment and talent are unconnected-unless you connect them.

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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."