Quotes About Dedication

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.

Don't get discouraged, and think positive all the time. Don't get down on yourself if you lose out a couple of times. It's just a lot of hard work.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

I don't just work! I think about my work, reflect on my work and think of what changes can I make, how can I elevated my game.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.

Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

If you're going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.