Quotes About Commitment

Work for work's sake. There are some who are really the salt of the earth in every country and who work for work's sake, who do not care for name, or fame, or even to go to heaven.

You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.

This is the sage who always works for work's sake without caring for the results.

So never mind these failures, these little backslidings. Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. . . . There is infinite life before the soul. Take your time and you will achieve your end.

be otherwise? One must first know how to work

The only way to rise is by doing the duty next to us, and thus gathering strength go on until we reach the highest state.

Duty is seldom sweet. It is only when love greases its wheels that it runs smoothly; it is a continuous friction otherwise.

I'm destined to become the greatest fighter the world has known. If I didn't truly believe that, I would go and teach or do something else.

When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a musician. I can't commit to anything unless I love it.

I don't think, because I'm going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people.

But when you work long hours, you never want your children to think they're not a priority - so something else in the schedule has to give instead. Inevitably, the thing to go is time for yourself.

There were many times during our career when he could've quit and done something else. But he knew that his power was with the Grateful Dead. He didn't want to go solo. Jerry was a groupist. He loved to group.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.

I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.