Quotes About Dedication

just to show that you can walk the walk.

Those who go the extra mile are rewarded.

One summer I decided to read the twenty novels by Émile Zola in twenty days, one a day, and managed to do so at great expense.

commitment and signaling

those who have more than their skin in the game. They have their soul in the game.

The longer the person stays with a company, the more emotional investment they will have in staying

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.

Success in life belongs to those who do.

there are few things whether in the outward world, or, to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought—few things hidden from the man who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery.

On all sides I could hear the creaking of the bedsteads, as the brethren of Blithedale started from slumber, and thrust themselves into their habiliments, all awry, no doubt, in their haste to begin the reformation of the world.

What did she mean, study like you're going to die? She said she spit up blood, but is that for real? Is studying really worth dying for? I couldn't accept it, and I guess that was one of my weak points.

I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you.

Walt Disney seldom dabbled. Everyone who knew him remarked on his intensity; when something intrigued him, he focused himself entirely as if it were the only thing that mattered.

If you want to know the real secret of Walt's success," longtime animator Ward Kimball would say, "it's that he never tried to make money. He was always trying to make something that he could have fun with or be proud of.

Part of Walt's secret was that in insisting on quality from individuals of whom it had never been required, he inspired commitment.

See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

Although I do not require devotion, am I not deserving of it?

always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.-- Everlost

I vow to become the change that might have been.

Scythe Anastasia is not your concern. She's my only concern.

Noncommittal is rampant among the committed.

But as an artist, Ezra wanted to be more than just acceptable. He wanted to be exceptional. Because if he couldn't be exceptional, what was the point?

See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.