Quotes About Dedication

The greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

There has not yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

Who among you would teach your boys that ease, that peace, is to be the first consideration in their eyes—to be the ultimate goal after which they strive? You men of Chicago have made this city great, you men of Illinois have done your share, and more than your share, in making America great, because you neither preach nor practice such a doctrine.

Mr. Roosevelt has gathered around him a body of public servants who are nowhere surpassed, I question whether they are anywhere equaled, for efficiency, self-sacrifice, and an absolute devotion to their country's interests. Many of them are poor men, without private means, who have voluntarily abandoned high professional ambitions and turned their backs on the rewards of business to serve their country on salaries that are not merely inadequate, but indecently so.

Nothing of value comes without effort.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

You write out of need. You write out of hunger. It isn't your brilliance; it's the flaw in your makeup that drives you.

Passion is hard to define, but I know it when I see it.

El enfoque es el compromiso a abandonar todo to que queda ficera del proceso ministerial simple. El enfoque con frecuencia implica decir "no>>. El enfoque exige que se diga > a todo lo demas.

Mightily and long must a man strive within himself before he learn altogether to overcome himself, and to draw his whole affection towards God.

When a man beginneth to grow lukewarm, then he feareth a little labour, and willingly accepteth outward consolation; but when he beginneth perfectly to conquer himself and to walk manfully in the way of God, then he counteth as nothing those things which aforetime seemed to be so grievous unto him.

He who is not always ready to suffer and to stand completely at the will of his beloved is not worthy to be called a lover, for it behooves a lover gladly to suffer all hard and bitter things for his beloved, and not to fall from love because of any irksome thing that may befall him.

The fewer there are who follow the way to perfection, the harder that way is to find

Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." ~ Ruth 1: 16, 17

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

In a world of life-and-death conflicts, spectator sports give us a "time-out" -- an opportunity to relax and celebrate human skill, dedication, and success in a spirit of simple joy.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.