Quotes About Commitment

To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."

Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.

When I see that little white ball go up, I want to catch it, no matter what. If I have to knock myself silly doing it, so be it.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?

Instead of running from what you don't want, walk with commitment toward what you desire. Focus on where you are going rather than being obsessed with where you have been.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it's so simple.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

People who really want to be in a relationship are IN one.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

I've got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.

I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

I don't have a problem with dying but I have a problem with what I'm going to die for. I don't want to die for no reason at all. If I'm going to die for something, I want it to be worthwhile.