Quotes About Dedication

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

In his biggest sacrifices, man finds the biggest fulfillment

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

From the outside, this runner's world looks unnatural. The body punished, the appetites denied, the satisfactions delayed, the motivations that drive most men ignored. The truth is that the runner is not made for the things and people and institutions that surround him. To use Aldous Huxley's expression, his small guts and feeble muscles do not permit him to eat or fight his way through the ordinary rough-and-tumble. That

At 45, 2 years after the birth of his last child, he started running again.

One thing we runners know. There is no substitute for running. No matter what age we are. No matter what time we do it.

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

Never tire, never falter, and never fail.

Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.

My brave fellows, you have done all what I asked you to, and more than could be reasonably expected.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

This makes an American 80-year-old's finishing sprint especially fun, because it can be focused on this fact: To live a long life braided with the life of a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to an imperishable proposition is simply delightful.

'Twas I that beat the bush,The bird to others flew.

A life is only a link in the chain. I want other people to continue the experience begun by those before me and dedicate themselves like me and the others before me to this--to go to the furthest reaches of the possible.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

Their church was small, just her and Joe and God. They tithed by working to preserve the earth He'd created and the animals that called it home. Only one word was in their gospel, and they relayed it

The days you work are the best days.

I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.