Quotes About Dedication

You ought to be professing/publicizing whatever you believe in and as well hang on to it i.e. you've got to hold on firmly to it no matter what happens. Yes, you've got to be doing just that.

You should be committed in all that you do in life. For, your value increases along side with your level of commitment i.e. the more committed you are, the more valuable you will be. Besides that, anyone who is not committed in whatever he or she does will sooner or later become redundant (no longer needed or useful). In other words, lack of commitment causes redundancy. Thus, you've got to be conscientious. I mean, be diligent in all your works or duties (for life). ~Emeasoba George

You shouldn't for any reason begin anything that you can't accomplish. But, until you're determined you will hardly accomplish whatever you intend to begin.

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Iti trebuie o pasiune mare pana la imbecilitate pentru a putea iubi o singura femeie.

In flawed families, a scion appears who dedicates himself to the truth and who ruins himself in its pursuit.

Cu cât e cineva mai d?ruit, cu atât înainteaz? mai greu în plan spiritual. Talentul e un obstacol pentru viaÅ£a interioar?.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is the monster.

The ideal: to be able to repeat oneself like... Bach.

O Satan, my Master, I give myself unto thee forever!" How I regret not remembering the name of the nun who, having written these words with a nail dipped in her own blood, deserves to figure in an anthology of prayer and concision.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

My Lord Jesus supplies everything I need in my life, but he also demands everything. He asks for the whole of my life - my heart and my soul and my mind.

Great men [women] never complain about the lack of time. Alexander the Great and John Wesley accomplished everything they did in twenty-four-hour days. FRED SMITH

This was real life - no magic, only practice, commitment, and labor. This lesson, about life, about art, is one I am still learning.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. She's so positive.

Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

Sometimes inspiration hits in the middle of the night and I want to get up and work on it. It's that spark of immediacy. For me, it's a tap which is on all the time.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Personality cults by contemporary painters infuriate me. One must seek the opposite, fade away more every day, and find exactingness only in the act of painting, and always forget oneself.