Quotes About Dedication

To finish first, first you must finish

Love is a verb.

Jupiter. I promise I'll always know where you are.

That's the Teacher Gene at work, giving its bearer an extra sense. It's a little frightening. Maybe that's how people decide to become teachers. They have that extra sense, and once they have it, and know that they have it, they don't have any choice except to become a teacher.

Gary D. Schmidt

7. Be willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. If your job doesn't excite you enough to follow this principle, resign and find a job you love enough to do what it takes.

Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.

extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

The reason we shouldn't pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happens at the extremes.

when you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable.

Where I'd had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world." — Og Mandino

So the more things you do, the less successful you are at any one of them.

If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn't an action you take but a habit you forge into your life.

working at something until it regularly works for you.

My goals are fueled by my dreams. I defend and protect those dreams from distractions and from interruptions from other people.

The truth I have come to know very clearly is that seeking mastery is a process and a path, not an event.

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No. What? Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh*t. Mitch: That's great, but what's the "one thing"? Curly: That's what you've got to figure out.

direction: the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

Super-successful people aren't superhuman at all; they've just used selected discipline to develop a few significant habits. One at a time. Over time.

To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time—all of them.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a habit. So