Quotes About Dedication

You know what you do when you shit, singing is the same thing, only up!

He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

You give ioo percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

It is with enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Men do not fail, they stop trying.

When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

When you're a professional, you come back no matter what happened the day before.

People with good intentions never give up!

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

What we love to do we find time to do.

We all find time to do what we really want to do.