Quotes About Dedication

This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.

All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand.

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

Shoemaker, stick to your last.

Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest, and they are rare.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

You're only a dog, old fellow; a dog, and you've had your day; But never a friend of all my friends has been truer than you alway.

Gentlemen of die Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily.

Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. Put some in!

When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

He did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.