Quotes About Dedication

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

Clay Hunt was the kind of individual that has made America a great country. In 2005, when his country needed him, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Shot in Iraq, he earned a Purple Heart, and after he recuperated, he graduated from Marine Corps Scout Sniper School and was deployed to Afghanistan.

I still bleed purple and gold, so it was a no-brainer for me to go to LSU.

My life is based on pain, passion, and purpose.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.

I think that I have a seriousness of purpose, a lot of support, and a healthy amount of good fortune.

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

I am proud of my scars because they show I dedicated myself to a bigger purpose.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

I knew that to live a fulfilling life I had to live a purposeful life; a life of service.

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

I've never, ever taken a role for money purposes or for some bizarre notion of what may be the kind of career move that would open things up for me. If I don't believe in it, I can't do it because I won't be good in it if I don't believe in it.

Things aren't gifted to you. Things don't just come from an idea, from nothing. You have to work for them. You have to pursue them. You have to take time. You have to sacrifice.

To pursue anything, you've got to have fun with it and to just never give up on it.

The best New Year's resolution I ever made was probably to, like, pursue fashion in the spirit that I have now.

Folks should find what really inspires them; they should always pursue what they want to do.

I've always loved public speaking, and that's something I definitely will pursue after the Olympics.

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.

I am trying to pursue excellence.

I have found that people who really want to work at 'Saturday Night Live' and pursue it get pretty close. You have to be funny - but everyone who works there, it was their dream to work there. So it's kind of nice in that way - there's a lot of people who say, 'I just always wanted to do this, and now I'm doing it.'