Quotes About Commitment

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

If you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else.

You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.

God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.

We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.

To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way.

Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.