Quotes About Dedication

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding of the grand millennial mission of this, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

Forget yourself and get to work.

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.

The work so performed is both remarkable and singular. It is a great work of love.

I have been quoted as saying, 'Do the best you can.' But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

We too must work. Nothing happens in this world until there is work. You never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. You have to put your hands to the handles of the plow and walk forward. It is easier now, but the principle is the same. There must be work, and what a great and wonderful blessing that is.

Lunch is for wimps.

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

There is no such thing as amateur art... You never yet made an artist by paying him well.

Long-continued practice is necessary to make any one a first-rate player at Battle-door and Shuttle-cock. As this game is an extremely noisy one, it ought never to be played near any one who is sick or happens to be subject to headaches. Like many other games, it is more agreeable when played in the open air.

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee.

I'd stop drinking coffee, but I'm no quitter.

There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a life-long respect for the price of butter and eggs.

I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut.