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Quotes About Devotion

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.
~ Louise Nevelson
I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
What you work hardest at, you love the most.
~ T. Allen Lawson
Work harder than anyone else around you.
~ T. J. Miller
I am married to work.
~ Alexander McQueen
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
~ Alfred Kazin
Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?
~ Charles Dickens
I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.
~ David Sarnoff
I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.
~ David Shrigley
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!
~ Eric Thomas
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
~ Florence Nightingale
Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
~ Francois Fenelon
But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
~ Henry Rollins
I have never lost a total passion for my work.
~ Jack Lemmon
the Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
I got a lot of fans, like core fans, that love me. I ain't one of the dudes that sell five or 10 million brackets, but my followers are stern. They're there. My fans - Jadakiss fans, LOX fans, D-Block fans - they loyal.
~ Jadakiss
I've been fascinated with Stevie Nicks for a long, long time. I've written 'Stevie Nicks' inside everything I've made for the past 20 years.
~ Chris March
When I make a commitment I stick to it.
~ Maria Sharapova
I like to hang on to cars. I'm not one of these guys that goes flipping cars all the time. If I find a car I like, I stick with it.
~ Bill Engvall