Quotes About Commitment

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father.

First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.

I love fighting. I want to fight, but there are principles in this game. You've got to have morals. I'm not just going to fight fights to fight to get nowhere.

I am very loyal to my principles.

I have acquired many wonderful principles from my family, and I intend to follow these for the rest of my life.

I'm not gonna change my principles. I'm not gonna change anything just to make money.

I will not ever change my principles. I will not do it. We have a 'how.' This is the most important thing we have - the 'how' we do things. Our style, our ideas, our principles with our mistakes that we have to correct.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.

Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

Mahesh lays down most of the rules. Even when I was dating him for four years prior to our marriage, he didn't want our relationship to be out in the open.

Prior to our daughter being born, I think getting married is another big step. That definitely settles things down personally.

I know where my priorities lie.

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

I consider myself to be a man with my priorities in order.

I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

When you have kids your priorities change. What you are looking for in a partner becomes more complex.

After a certain age, when you are married and have kids your priorities change.

Having a child changes your priorities. I am convinced, for me, it will be something very positive and give me even more motivation.