Making Sacrifices Quotes

Thinking is easy; action is difficult; to act in accordance with one’s thought is the most difficult thing in the world.

It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.

Don't just sit there dreaming; dreaming is the luxury of the rich.

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

I tell you what, if somebody gives you the opportunity to live your dream, wouldn't you want to do it for a lot of hours?

Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.

I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.

Every great team has had to fail at some point in order to be successful.

Having principles is important, but you don’t want to walk off a cliff with your principles.

People get the wrong idea. They think because somebody's visible and works to a degree in some kind of consistent way, they just have a pile of choices. And that's not necessarily true. You can always choose not to audition and see what happens. Sometimes that's a benefit. But most things that I do, I meet on, especially films.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

If you look at the movie 'Belly,' I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I'm not in the game for the wrong reasons. I'm not in the game for the glory. I'm in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I'm a highly intelligent individual.

I joined Norwich when I was 15 and moved away from a life living on an estate in Cardiff and everything I knew. I moved away from my girlfriend, who is my wife now, and my nan, who has now passed away. I missed a lot.

You can't put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.

When something goes wrong on the field, we expect our players to take the blame, step up, and proactively assume the blame for it, even if it's not their fault. That's the way to be a good teammate.

It's really hard to chase a lofty dream.

I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't play guitar.

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

One must say no to some opportunities to open the possibilities of others.

I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people who had a head on their shoulders, sold my TV and just got a whole bunch of books.

There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.

Throughout my career, no matter what I've done or what decision I've made, I've made it with my family first. My priority was taking care of my family while I was taking care of business.