Quotes About Commitment

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

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

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.

I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on 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.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

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

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

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

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

I know that I often take risks, but it is always for the purposes of the team.

It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.

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.

It's hard not to chase the money. You sit at home when guys are out playing for a $6 million purse, and you know you're going to drop back on the money list, so you end up playing when you don't really want to.

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.

No creator in modern times is going to stick around with a concept for 20 years. There are simply too many alternatives that writers want to pursue.

I think sometimes we put too much of a gravity on what it is that we do... I just think you go out into the world, and if the door is open, pursue with excellence whatever it is that you feel you are called to pursue.

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

I am trying to pursue excellence.