Quotes About Commitment

Even as the leader of the party, my first duty always is to the people who elected me, my first duty always is going to be to represent the people of this riding in Ottawa.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Do well what you do. And do it conscious that you ought to be leaders among men.

Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.

I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you're thinking commitment - and you probably shouldn't until you're a senior - you don't want to start your marriage off under the constraints of poverty and schooling.

I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.

I have a short time to play this game. I'm trying to get every ounce of it out of my body.

I've worked with a lot of great, glamorous girls in movies and the theater. They would always give their last ounce to get where they wanted to be.

In the research I did for 'Apollo,' there was never a moment's hesitation by anyone that we would do anything other than save these guys, until every resource, every ounce of energy was spent. And I'm very proud of that aspect of our culture.

If 1,500 people are gonna see me and they each pay $20, I want to give them everything that I possibly can. They just made an exchange that allows me to live a dream of mine since I was a child. And that's not lost on me. So I want to expend every ounce of power and energy I have.

That's what a professional does, focuses every week, every practice, every play, every game, every ounce of energy you have.

This is what being an athlete's all about, being able to give back to our community, the people that support us night in, night out.

To me, being an All Black means following our dreams.

I wanted to stay home and go to Maryland because I'm really the man of my house. We lost our father when I was 14. Somebody had to be there, so I had to take it and put that on my shoulders.

Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?

If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child.

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

Jill and I arrange our lives to spend a lot of time together. That makes us both happy.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?

I love Matthew Broderick. Call me crazy, but I love him. We can only be in the marriage we are. We're very devoted to our family and our lives. I love our life. I love that he's the father of my children, and it's because of him that there's this whole other world that I love.

We should put God ahead of everyone else in our lives.

We've always believed in our music.