Quotes About Dedication

The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.

as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (Joshua 24:14–15)

God has commanded the sacrifice of praise, and if it doesn't cost you something, it isn't a sacrifice.

whatever we worship we eventually will wind up serving. That's because the more we worship something or someone, the more we increase our level of commitment, and the more we become like the thing we worship.

In the world's eyes I could lose everything, so I gave everything to God.

Kelley read every medical article he could find in papers and magazines. He was hungry to understand what McCoy was doing, especially because of his fans. Again and again, he received letters from young people declaring their intentions to go to medical school or into medical research or

The price of being the best is having to be the best.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Have talent, work hard, get lucky!

It must be all or nothing. We cannot approach the situation halfway." After

to dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all that is painful and bitter, because Love lives only by sacrifice . . . and the more we would surrender ourselves to Love, the more we must surrender ourselves to suffering.

Love lives only by sacrifice

Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

If you wish to be a saint, it is not hard. Have one aim--to please Jesus and to unite yourself more intimately to Him.

Impeccability is to act to the very best of your ability upon whatever knowledge happens to be available to you at any given moment.

A warrior has to believe, for belief is an essential part of his being.

Only those who come to the warrior's path prepared to die can possibly hope to succeed.

The best hunters are not those with a natural aptitude for hunting, but those who have had to struggle long and hard to learn every trick of the trade.

A hunter is an exceptionally disciplined man, for the parameters of his livelihood are precise.

The highest form of love is patriotism and selflessness

If we want to know and reverence God truly, we will dedicate ourselves to becoming biblical theologians who understand the narrative and themes of Scripture.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it on my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:12–14)

a "mélomane," the French word for music lover;

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.