Quotes About Dedication

Achieving excellence is being passionate about what you're doing and working so hard that they have to hire two people to replace you.

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

We all have to practice, and we have to practice with all of our might for the rest of our lives.

Do you love him enough to do something to win him — to really put yourself out somewhat for that purpose?

To wish a dream to life, your desire must be realized through determination, discipline, and drive. It is when you align your decisions and dedication with your actions that dreams manifest into destinations.

men don't allow themselves to be killed for their interest, they allow themselves to be killed for their passion

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. —Bruce Lee

How did I get here? I'm not rich. Not a mutant. Not a genius. Not a natural. I just try harder. I always have.

I wanted you to understand right away how committed I am to you...That you are the only one

In my career I've had my hands upon more revolting bodies than a layman is likely to encounter in a lifetime of trying. I've squeezed boils, soaked my hands in blood and pus, slipped in entrails, swaddled slippery stillborns, and pulled excrement from unwilling bowels by hand.

God and angels don't get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers.

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.

It's folly to measure your success in money or fame. Success is measured only by your ability to say yes to these two questions: Did I do the work I needed to do? Did I give it everything I had?

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet.

Writing is hard for every last one of us… Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own.

The only way you'll find out if you "have it in you" is to get to work and see if you do.

That you're so bound up about writing tells me that writing is what you're here to do. And when people are here to do that, they almost always tell us something we need to hear. I want to know what you have inside you. I want to see the contours of your second beating heart. So write, Elissa Bassist. Not like a girl. Not like a boy. Write like a motherfucker. Yours,

Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.

the work you do each day matters. Even if it's work that seems invisible. Even if it's work that doesn't lead to the outcome you hoped for. Even if others attempt to undo your work.

It's that the work you do each day matters. Even if it's work that seems invisible. Even if it's work that doesn't lead to the outcome you hoped for. Even if others attempt to undo your work.

Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.

Success doesn't just come to lucky people or those perceived to be lucky, rather success comes to those who are more persistent than most others.