Quotes About Dedication

I think there's a special saint who protects unfinished projects. Unfinished projects are just as valuable to us as the projects we finish.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Only give me the chance to do my very best!

You'll never feel like exercising less than now when you need it most - but do it anyway.

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

A scholar is someone who sticks to things. A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.

People who aren't interested in anything are people who can't stop protecting their enthusiasm.

In fact, on the six-figure path, seeking support is not an option, but a requirement.

When your intentions are deep and compelling, and your commitment strong and inflexible, you're more likely to keep going when the going gets rough.

When your intentions are deep and compelling, and your commitment strong and inflexible, you're more

Successful women don't sleep until noon.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish...

Give me an army of three active corps and I will agree to become Governor of Paris; on this condition, formal and explicit, you can count on me for its defense." Messimy thanked him so effusively, "shaking my hands several times and even kissing me," that Gallieni felt assured "from the warmth of these demonstrations that the place I was succeeding to was not an enviable one.

nuns of the Hôtel Dieu or municipal hospital, "having no fear of death, tended the sick with all sweetness and humility.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Success flourishes only in perseverance — ceaseless, restless perseverance.

There is no force as powerful as a promise that insists on being kept.

Jones told them they wouldn't get to wear the new uniforms, wouldn't deserve to wear them, until they came in one morning playing faultlessly. In two months, he had them all considering serious life careers in music. Jones was that good.

I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

It's just a base hit, people. It means nothing unless we put a string of them together.

For if one is to be a warrior, he has to pay attention to his trade and art. Discipline is the first rule of success.

Knowing that you've made a choice that you will not reverse allows you to pour your energy into improving the relationship that you have rather than constantly second-guessing it.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.