Quotes About Dedication

Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

Now get to work, bitch!

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

Almost lost you," he thought, surprised to find himself blinking back tears. "Been through too much, me and you. We're going to finish this thing together.

When Peter sets his mind to a thing," Tanngnost thought, "far be it from reason to stop him.

You can never be done with music. No more than you can be done with breathing. The day you quit is the day you die.

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.

What is it, Lord?" What am I holding back? What am I using as an excuse for not serving You in whatever You want me to do?" And then, there by the canal, I finally had my answer. My "yes" to God had always been a "yes, but." Yes, but I'm not educated. Yes, but I'm lame. With the next breath, I did say "Yes." I said it in a brand-new way, without qualification. "I'll go, Lord

The good jihad. It sounds like an oxymoron, until you look in your Bible at 2 Timothy 4:7. Paul says, "I have fought the good fight." In the Arabic translation those last three words are rendered "the good jihad." We

One of the students was a doctor, a German woman, and I used to watch her scouring garbage pails as though she were preparing a room for surgery.

I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?

You can get in anywhere if you go to serve.

All that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others.

That when he had thus in prayer filled his mind with great sentiments of that infinite Being, he went to his work appointed in the kitchen (for he was cook to the society); there having first considered severally the things his office required, and when and how each thing was to be done, he spent all the intervals of his time, as well before as after his work, in prayer.

We must, nevertheless, always work at it, because not to advance in the spiritual life is to go back.

The goal of the spiritual life is to become the most perfect worshippers of God that we can possibly be, in this life and throughout all eternity.

The spiritual life is neither an art nor a science. To arrive at union with God all one needs is a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, do nothing but for His sake, and to love Him only.

You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

The three most important characteristics of a coalition are: (1) Loyalty; (2) Loyalty; (3) Loyalty.

James Buchanan's niece: "He often worked just for work's sake.