Quotes About Dedication

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.

Excellence in any pursuit is the late, ripe fruit of toil.

It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

The only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

It takes time to be a success.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do anything well.

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people and thy God my God: where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.