I didn't work hard for success. I worked hard because that's what is in me. I showed up in this world somehow knowing that you have to work hard. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through.
He instilled in me to be patient and understanding - my father would always hold me accountable, he taught me the importance of following things through, being responsible.
It's real important to me to do what I say I'm going to do.
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
I have supported a great many who promised to do things that I thought ought to be done, who proved faithless to their promises.
If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble.
I grew up in a family where the thing that was valued most was being a hard worker, and if you commit to something, you follow through.
What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through?
I say what I mean and do what I say.
I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.
When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
I'm the sort of person - for example coming off 'Strictly' - I make decisions, then I just deal with them and I go with them 100 per cent.
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since the day I called my father and told him I was going to study acting and maybe try to see if I could do well with that, and he told me: "Don't do that. You don't want to do that, that's just dream stuff. Get a legitimate job and move forward."
You have to make a decision: Am gonna be the person that takes the risk? Am I gonna be the person that says I'm gonna start this business and I'm gonna follow through with it no matter what the obstacles?
I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
It's one thing to talk the talk; it's another thing to walk after getting whacked with a coconut.
Implementation of promises is as important as making them.
Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises.
I'm the type of guy if you say something right now, whenever I see you, I'm going to hold you to that.
Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
Mama was a stickler on keeping your word. That's helped me to make the right decisions in so many situations. Because of that, I also think really hard before I make a decision because I know I'm going to have to see it through.
