Quotes About Commitment

I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

Mesut is a player that always keeps giving his best and is always surprising everyone and he's a player that we're very grateful and very lucky to have.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

When they announce you as husband and wife for the first time, it's very surreal.

I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.

In my head the word surrender has never existed, because that is what Real Madrid is about.

What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same time, I think what stands out is, as superheroes, you don't give up; you don't surrender. I think that's what makes a superhero.

Every role is a new form of surrender.

You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.

I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep.

The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it.

The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it.

Debts of friendship are not debts.

Mara hoarsely found her voice. 'You will take no concubine.' Her tone did not indicate a question. And her husband's steely stillness became answer in itself, until he acknowledged the truth. 'My lady, you are all the woman I could wish in this world. So long as you are at my side, I will have no other.

Never offer an oath lightly. For you pledge not only your life and sacred honor, but your people's honor as well. To break an oath is to be without honor, to be without a spirit, and to be apart from the people.

If you must fall in love, Calis, fall in love with someone who will live a long time.

In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played so dominant a role in the preceding centuries that believers often cannot conceive how non-believers can muster sufficient commitment to their own lives to get out of bed each morning, let alone the ethical wherewithal to regard others as deserving of moral regard. Once one "comes out" as an atheist, these are the inquisitions to which one is often subjected.

One must exert oneself in order to achieve a life that matters. If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all.