Quotes About Dedication

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life.

If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.

I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.

Acting is happy agony.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.