Quotes About Dedication

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

When you try to be everything, you wind up being nothing.

I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

that the majority of success in life is about showing up.

We're all capable of more, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Keep chasing those dreams, through hard work you'll eventually catch them.

It's not a job but a condition. (Alan Garner on writing)

to show that he kept watch and worked that the world would not be lost. And, as he sat, hope came.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief. T. S. Eliot

Discipleship is all about adherence to Christ.

I'm working myself to death.

A remarkably disciplined scholar, Jefferson spent money on books the way less purposeful young men spent it on whiskey or women.

It takes but a moment to make a convert; it takes a lifetime to manufacture a saint.

German shepherds want to please their handlers.

And I to my pledged word am true,I shall not fail that rendezvous.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel ' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

The humorist George Ade once said, 'Don't pity the martyrs, they love the work.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.