Quotes About Commitment

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.

Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

I believe in sexual monogamy, but I don't believe in emotional monogamy.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

Knowing what to do is useless without the emotional strength to do what you know.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

Management must have a purpose, a dedication and that dedication must have an emotional commitment. It must be built in as a vital part of the personality of anyone who truly is a manager.