Quotes About Dedication

I have made up my mind that when I go home form this general conference... there are many, many areas in my life that I can perfect. I have made a mental list of them, and I expect to go to work as soon as we get through.

And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!

Getting to work on the thing that you're always thinking about anyways is like the biggest--that's the goal.

His efforts has made load of my karma been removed, and I am now free of karma.

always place truth and service before pleasure. Sometimes even committed and one-pointed people avoid the path in pursuit of momentary pleasures.

Even in moments of utter danger, a person like Mahatma Gandhi remained totally involved in his work.

When you don't worry whether you win or lose, or you don't even consider its effect, you give your hundred percent, then that is really playing, that is a real game.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching.

Go forth and set the world on fire.

To give, and not to count the cost to fight, and not to heed the wounds, to toil, and not to seek for rest, to labor, and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do thy will

O my God, teach me to be generous to serve you as you deserve to be served to give without counting the cost to fight without fear of being wounded to work without seeking rest and to spend myself without expecting any reward but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will. Amen

Lord, teach me to be generous; Teach me to serve you as you deserve; To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil, and not to seek for rest; To labor, and not to ask for reward - except to know that I am doing your will.

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.

O my God, teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as I should, to give without counting the cost, to fight without fear of being wounded, to work without seeking rest, to labour without expecting any reward, but the knowledge that I am doing your most holy will.

Good, better, best, never let it rest 'til the good is the better, and the better is the best

I'm more grateful than ever that we have such brave and heroic people in this country who put their lives on the line every day to make me safe.

The hardest part of writing is the same as doing your homework...it's staying seated in your chair.

Louis Eliopulos, who works on cold cases for the Naval Criminal Investigator's Service, is fond of saying, "If they were easy cases they would have been solved already.

You limit your options every time you don't try your best.

Football is the opera of the people.

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.