Quotes About Commitment

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

My son, give me thine heart...

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

Any problem can be solved with patience, wisdom and earnest effort.

In order to be successful in any kind of undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work

When one takes a broad survey of the country, he will find that the most useful and influential people in it are those who take the deepest interest in institutions that exist for the purpose of making the world better.

The titular counselor buttoned up his collar and replied seriously: "If you live in a state, you should either ch-cherish it or leave it—anything else is either parasitism or mere lackeys' gossip.

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

People forget sometimes, in order to become number one, you have to be a bit crazy. You have to do things out of the norm.

There was one thing the public could say for certain about Churchill: that there was nothing that he was going to ask the British armed forces to do that he would not have done himself.

Never give up doing what you like :)

We must always strive to achieve perfection, even when we know perfection is not entirely achievable.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Marriage, rightly concluded, is an incarnation of love--poetry expressed in action--a sweet embellishment of an otherwise prosaic existence.

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

On my honor, I will do my best To do my duty To God and my country

Don't worry about politics or people. You just please the Lord. He has little trouble with His servants' being too strong. Most of His difficulty is in getting them going. . . . Half the problems in the Church occur because the members don't know the gospel. [Remarks recorded September 7, 1977 by Henry B. Eyring, in I WILL LEAD YOU ALONG, 313]

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.