Quotes About Dedication

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

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 get the fourth without it.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

On how to become a good speaker: Practice all the time. One of the best ways is to put a bunch of marbles in your mouth while you talk. Slowly but surely you take away a marble. And then, when you've lost all your marbles, you're a public speaker.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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

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

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective ... if you want it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Until I die, I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forth-rightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled to no less.

I love this job. I love it to death. I love every waking minute of it.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.

Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy, thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.