Quotes About Dedication

At an early age Jesse often said he wanted to be a soldier, and before long he was one. He was there with his military brotherhood, fighting terrorism there so we wouldn't have to fight it here.

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

It takes me ages to write stuff.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.

I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.

You don't think anything about age when you're playing [golf]. I mean, why would you ever think about that.

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

It suits me to be in a series that takes ages to film.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

When you believe in something and truly go after it with all you have, amazing things will happen.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

Maybe the world is waiting for you to give yourself to it. Maybe it's only then that things can work themselves out.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

Or in the latter part of a late-winter Saturday afternoon, his mind turning (as he would not say, but as we knew) to the prospect of a visit to his might-as-well-be wife, Kate Helen Branch, he would stand up and stretch. "Well, boys, I reckon I better get on home and shine, shave, clean up, and sandpaper my tool.