Quotes About Dedication

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

When I saw something that needed doing, I did it.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

He profits most who serves best.

While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.

What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all.

The way you get better at playing football is to play football.

Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love. ... Give it the best there is in you.... Seize your opportunities. ... And be a member of the team.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.