Quotes About Dedication

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

The Holy Guide reminded him that in Islam labor was a form of prayer.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education," it was said by Professor Huxley, "is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson which ought to be learned, and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson which he learns thoroughly." Doing

And above all, study, study, study ! All the genius in the world will not help you along with any art unless you become a hard student. It

Orison Swett Marden

It is, says Professor Mathews, only by continued, strenuous efforts, repeated again and again, day after day, week after week, and month after month, that the ability can be acquired to fasten the mind to one subject, however abstract or knotty, to the exclusion of everything else.

That disables a lot of people from achieving goals, it is simply, a lack of willingness to pay for these goals, a lack of willingness to make great effort, a lack of willingness to sacrifice their comfort for those goals.

he who sticks to one thing is irresistible.

No matter what your work is, says Emerson, let it be yours; no matter if you are a tinker or preacher, blacksmith or president, let what you are doing be organic, let it be in your bones, and you open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.

The more you know of your own line of work, by so much do you set yourself a little apart from a hundred of your competitors who are content to let well enough alone.

Your highest ideal, the vision of your life work which you long to make real, is your best friend. Keep as close to it as you can, stick to it, and it will lead you to your goal.

Mr. Arthur Brisbane says: One thing above all brings success—to like your work and to be interested in it; and not to like your work is the one thing above all others that brings failure.

We believe in a man in proportion to his immovableness from principle, the fixity of his faith in his mission. The man who is loosely attached to his life work, who can be easily turned aside from his life purpose, is not much of a man.

Fortune always smiles on those who roll up their sleeves and put their shoulders to the wheel.

Remember that it is only through your work that you can grow to your full height.

he wins the prize who pays the price.

success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed : pay the price and it is yours.

efficiency never has to go begging for advancement; the man that masters his trade goes to the front.

He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.

You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.

It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of those who need them.