Quotes About Dedication

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice: everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

God knows that Id do anything for a part two.

Flyer than the rest but I dont rest I keep goin.

Started out hustlin, ended up ballin.

Lifes a bh, now die for her.

Im all about my cake. Im tryna marry Betty Crocker.

I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.

The only one," he murmured. His chin dipped a little bit. "You know that, Dru? You're the only person who's ever believed in me. You know what that'll do to a guy?" What?"I-" "It makes him want to live up to it.

Theatre is my first love. No matter how tight my schedule may be, for theatre I always find time.

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Three mornings later, after the dog walk but before my cereal and cup of tea, in the middle of my writing morning, in what I believe is the middle of a paragraph, I finish a sentence. I lift my pencil a few inches from the page and read it. It's the last sentence of the book. I can't think of another. That's it. I have my underpainting.

You spend enough time at the racetrack, you know your horse, okay? You always know your horse.

Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means.

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

I took love before. It was not until I met you that I gave love.

We're working on it." That's my standard answer in situations where I don't know squat. Tomasetti

The price of greatness is servanthood, sacrifice and humility