Quotes About Dedication

Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business, but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers, administrators, even gofers-at least for a while.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

The only way to pray is to pray, and the way to pray well is to pray much.

If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.

Once you sink that first stake, they'll never make you pull it up.

To spur a willing horse.

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

We also serve who only punctuate.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame, you just do it.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.