Quotes About Dedication

When you're good at making excuses, it's difficult to excel at anything else.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Russell H. Conwell

man,' I said to him, 'with the proper determination and ambition can study sufficiently at night to win his desire.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

Anyone can be a photographer, even a monkey can be taught to do that, but a developer, no. It is the work of real craftsmen, exactly like an engraver, a real profession.

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

There are no failures, only quitters

writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful and utterly, utterly personal thing.

Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Books were my hobby, even as a child,' he told me. 'I read about every book in Milkwaukee Public Library before I was 15...Some of the books I didn't understand- but I read them just the same. I believed, you see, that my life work would be teaching, so I wanted to learning everything I could about every possible subject.

Transformation is not about an emotion: it is about a commitment to a process of good will, and anyone can do it.

Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can be at least as important as where you're going.

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.

I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.

[T]he author writes as a race-horse runs, for the sake of it. He feels like it, and kindles just because he enjoys burning.

best, but if it be your best it will bring a harvest.

who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean these people who take time and pray.

One habit I have not yet succeeded in getting rid of: the inveterate one of feeling that when at home I must sit at my desk for so long each day to write, not letters whether of business or of friendship, but printable stuff, even when there is no idea of publishing connected with it. If I have failed to do it, I feel morally hang-doggy and physically unclean.

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.