Quotes About Dedication

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

This is the thing...you give everything to raising a guide-dog puppy, but the everything comes from you spirit -- it's your happiness, your wakefulness, your love of life itself. Puppies take this into their hearts like vitamins.

I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Being a man is a privilege, not an entitlement. It is a surrender of our priority. It is a laying down of our lives, not physically but inwardly—our preferences, our pleasures, sometimes even our dreams. Our version of Witold Pilecki's medals comes in the lives we offer to God, lives we have bled and sweated and prayed and given ourselves for. This is what it means to be a man.

We would follow Arthur to the very gates of Hell and beyond if he asked it. And that is the solitary truth.

talent without discipline is only an empty promise—the glitter of an unworked crystal. It is nothing of itself.

For the scholar no effort is ever wasted.

were we truly men of dedication—with an honor mortgaged to no single individual or group, and compromised by no private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the public good and the national interest?

When others walk away from a lost cause, then that is the time you can step in and seize success.

Making time for what you really want to do can be a full-time job, but only if you allow it to be.

Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success.

If you want more than what most have, then you must do far more than what it is they do.

With a clear idea of what you want in life, you need to actively pursue your dream. Half-hearted attempts will not work.

Places of learning are full to brimming, but those with a real thirst for knowledge are few. Remain true to yourself and never stop learning...

It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it.

No successful business is run through thought. It requires people who work.

The twisted thing about doing what you're good at is that you aren't really good at it until you do it over and over and over again.

If you believe in what you do for tomorrow then today you will get your hands dirty ....

The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication.