Quotes About Dedication

To be great at a few things and experience it, you have to say no to many things.

For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.

Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics didn't justify changing his lifelong commitment.

Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you want to know God intimately, walk with Him daily, and please Him in every way, you're going to have to do what few do. Absolutely nothing.

But I can please God

Imagine how your life might change if you were willing to say to your church and to God, My answer is yes. Anything. Anywhere. Anytime. Use me as your church and for your glory.

But the truth is, we find time for what's important to us.

The road to committed faith is paved with personal abandonment and self-denial. Life ceases to be about us, and it begins to be all about God.

When it comes to the church what has your answer been? Has it been no? Has it been, "Well, maybe, if I have time"? Or has it been an unconditional yes? Imagine how your life might change if you were willing to say to your church and to God, My answer is yes. Anything. Anywhere. Anytime. Use me as your church and for your glory.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Full-time lover of your world; part-time lover of God

serving isn't something we do. A servant is who we're called to be.

It's never about who's the fastest, strongest, toughest—it's always about who, when everyone else would pause, will commit.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

The only ammunition against reckless discouragement is relentless devotion.

It took seven hours to get Thomas Kilgannon

God alone is God, and he alone merits first place—beyond every other love, every other anxiety, every other fear that consumes us.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

Musk always had a book in hand. Said his brother, Kimbal, "It was not unusual for him to read ten hours a day. If it was the weekend, he could go through two books in a day.

I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

Love doesn't hurt, and won't fade away with the memory either. There's no right or wrong, no past, no future. Just beauty, noticed on the inside, thanks to the ones we care for the most. Encouragement, to dedicate yourself and protect. So join the dance, attach and then let go if you need to. Ain't no escape, it always finds a way to touch you deep inside, because love is part of who you are.

She had been waiting for him, every day pouring cupfuls of water into the pots that held his plants, turning them in the sunlight, taking care of them because she thought it was a way of taking care of him.

You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.