Quotes About Commitment

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

There was never any question about his (Enos Slaughter) courage. He proved it by getting married four times.

The courage to care about your people, your clients, and your career.

The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Showing up is eighty percent of life.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

To show courage you must be in tune with your core values, understand your own fears and desires, committed to your integrity and tenacious in your ability to live it all in the face of oppostion.

To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals.

My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

When I was younger, my dad did want me to be perfect, so that's probably why that's installed in me to this day. I want to be perfect at whatever I do. I can't help it. It's just installed in me.

Now I'm his dad, I live for [my son]. I have a responsibility. It's a big responsibility.

Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better.

I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

My dad has always said to me, "where there is a will there is a way" and this is the type of dedication hockey has taught me. Being dedicated to this sport [hockey] has been my will to play.

My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did.

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!