Quotes About Dedication

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.

The point of this hard work isn't to prove anything to anyone, only to transcend your own limitations.

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.

were pressed into service, although

He'd eat it, though, and not just because he was hungry. He'd have eaten it even if Hayley Conyer had force-fed him caviar and foie gras during their meeting. He'd eat it because his wife had prepared it for him.

There is no genius. There is only the work. There is no art. There is only the craft.

the seventeenth-century saint, Margaret Marie Alacoque, a French nun of Parayle-Monial, who founded the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Margaret would deliberately eat cheese knowing that it made her vomit, and by her own admission she ate the vomit of sister nuns.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.

The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

Keep this in mind, though: sooner or later, you really must study with a teacher, for the practice is long and not easy, and there are many opportunities to become discouraged or confused along the way.

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

To train in the martial arts is like being apprenticed to frustration, to the burn of effort, and the unattainable criteria of perfection. There's no glamour, no reward beyond the ones you create in your own heart. You struggle along the path and your teacher goads you or challenges you, always three steps ahead and always waiting, his eyes betraying nothing but demanding everything. And you try to give it.

Effort is its own reward.

We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

Personal testimony of the gospel and the Church is the most important thing you can earn in this life.

Yeah, I do. HipHop was, though I would not say all, cause I try to keep myself open to other things, but nearly all I listend to for the last 14 years of my life.

I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life

Good ball players make good citizens.