Quotes About Commitment

To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

People who make mistakes but try their best, other people will support. But people who make mistakes because they're lazy, nobody supports.

I'm not a person that just supports an issue; I go out and work for it.

I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.

I know firsthand the way that Fox supports their athletes because they've been there for me since the beginning. I know that I can count on them.

My husband supports me a lot - he would probably go higher in his field if he didn't.

I promise to keep doing my best, living up to my fans' love and supports.

Once we make the commitment to help ourselves, we are able to help others - and the universe supports our commitments.

My mom supports me. She's behind what I do.

Let us suppose you become a craneman. Suppose you become a clerk in a lawyer's office. Give the best that is in you. Let nothing stand in the way of your going on.

I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

I suppose the biggest thing I learned is that I'm in it for the right reasons. I love my job as much now as when I first began. I still feel fully invested in every audition, every job - large or small, every appearance, every meeting with every fan.

When you receive a script and it leaps out at you and it's breathing with its own heartbeat - I suppose when you read something like that it's not a choice of whether you do it or don't. It feels like it chooses you, so you just do it.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right.

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.

I suppose I could be accused of taking acting too seriously and losing the fun of it. I do take my work very seriously; I take on the responsibility of it.

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.'

People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.

I suppose I've always put the career, the job and politics, all of that first.

I suppose, being in politics, it wasn't a job - it was almost a calling. It dominated my life, so I do think that probably a lot of people around me have paid quite a big price for that.