Quotes About Dedication

The job is not the work.

Talent is something we're born with: it's in our DNA, a magical alignment of gifts. But skill? Skill is earned. It's learned and practiced and hard-won. It's insulting to call a professional talented. She's skilled, first and foremost. Many people have talent, but only a few care enough to show up fully, to earn their skill. Skill is rarer than talent. Skill is earned. Skill is available to anyone who cares enough.

While one nonprofit runs from grant maker to grant maker seeking funds for this project or that one, a successful nonprofit sticks with a consistent theme, showing up, paying its dues, focusing on just a few foundations until the money comes through.

If you quit right in the middle of building that frequency, it's no wonder you never got a chance to earn the trust.

Thomas Hawk is the most successful digital photographer in the world. He has taken tens of thousands of pictures, on his way to his goal of taking a million in his lifetime. The

Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters

If I could offer just one piece of inspiration, it's this: The Dip is the reason you're here. Whether you're lifting weights or negotiating a sale or applying for a job or lunging for a tennis ball, you've made a huge investment. You've invested time and money and effort to get to this moment. You've acquired the equipment and the education and the reputation…all so you can confront this Dip, right now. The Dip is the reason you're here.

The Dip is the difference between the easy "beginner" technique and the more useful "expert" approach in skiing or fashion design.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice

Marriage is work, enormous work, because it's a living entity that needs everlasting attention. It will push you and bend you and test you, and if you're not prepared for any of that, it will shatter you.

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

May my practice be dedicated to your well-being.

Beginning again and again is the actual practice, not a problem to be overcome so that one day we can come to the real meditation.

the problem is never with the faith, but with the faithful.

If you believed in truth and cared enough to obtain it, Ganga affirmed, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it. It was essential to accept punishment willingly in order to demonstrate the strength of one's convictions. That

And she understood now that love wasn't just wanting, but a steady devotion, no matter what.

But being busy for God and

determined to go on and do her job and we

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

The last days are not for the faint of heart or the spiritually out of shape.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)

If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don't want to dance, then you're going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.