commitment

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

To say yes you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no even if saying no means death.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

If you start to take Vienna take Vienna.

What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter it's the belief that counts.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity and in the end no manhood.

Moderation in war is imbecility.

My face is set my gait is fast my goal is Heaven my road is narrow my way is rough my companions are few my guide is reliable my mission is clear. I cannot be bought compromised detoured lured away turned back diluted or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice hesitate in the presence of adversity negotiate ... at the table of the enemy ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in a maze of mediocrity. I won't give up shut up let up or slow up.

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.

Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.