Quotes About Dedication

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery.

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.

Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.

The father of his country.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of 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.

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.

Where there's a will there's a way.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

Give me a man who sings at his work.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

My whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me.

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Excellence costs a great deal.

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.