Quotes About Dedication

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

If you put your very existence into it, your sensitivity and humanity, it makes for a sound distinctly yours,

Be ambitious towards your own personal enhancement."

Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!"

Live life with a purpose and live it full out."

You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality."

Your actions should be so dedicated that no one should have to ask you what you want."

In her TED talk, Dr. Duckworth said, "One characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. It wasn't social intelligence. It wasn't good looks, physical health, and it wasn't IQ. It was grit. Grit is a passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is stamina. . . . Grit is living life like it's a marathon and not a sprint.

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

the New Testament model of a Christian is not one who dedicates his own work to God. Rather it is the story of God Himself doing the work through a person totally yielded to Him.

I wrote a thousand songs a day.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.