Quotes About Dedication

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.

If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

My life is very much consumed with work.

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.

I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes from drawing.

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.

If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored.

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.

You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Hard work will have the last smile in its race against luck.