Quotes About Dedication

What it means is you will fight until you're all used up. Far from being sour, life is so sweet you will live it to the hilt and be consumed by it.

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble…. A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Work alone is noble.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

I pored over them," says he, "driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noticing the true, tender or sublime, from affectation and fustian.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.

What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.

I served in the Israeli Navy, and it's not an easy thing.

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.

You have to really want to be a Navy SEAL. The passion you need to endure the rigors of training, to become the best of the best... It's admirable.

When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.

For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.

Like it or not, Jesse Ventura is a Navy SEAL. He did the pushups and put up with the cold water, just like the rest of us.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

My grandfather was a commander in the Navy. He was very proud of his service, and he lived his entire life as though he was still serving.

Like in combat when you're in chaos, a Navy SEAL in chaos, you cannot be afraid of dying for a cause.