Edward James Olmos Quotes

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

I don't think I've ever had a minute off in Israel. I've been completely and utterly devoted to what Hanadiv does. I'm not saying I'm a good guy for that. It's just the way the dice have fallen.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.

You've got to want to play defence. Nobody really wants to play defence. It's boring. It sucks. You don't get the flashiness, the scores, the dunks. But you've got to have it.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Whoever can, should.

I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.

I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.

If the team needs you, you need to sacrifice.

Family's number one; just, that's flat out it, and I think a lot of people, when they're put in a certain position, will come to that conclusion, and you'll just do whatever.

Because coaching is a challenge, it makes you want to come back. But if you do, you know you're going to be negligent in other areas.

I cannot just do things without thinking. I have a wife and daughter to think of at all times now.

For me, motivation is like obligation.