Quotes About Dedication

The best way for you to gain confidence is to prepare so well on something ... that there can be little chance to fail.

The guy's only doing it for some doll.

When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky You can bet that he's doing it for some doll.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

And she often reminded me that those four kids of mine were my church. With that in mind, I had to refocus on my ministry...I had been given four very special projects that would have to be seen through to completion. Someone had to instill godly principals in my children's lives, and God let me know that I was the woman for the job.

Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.

I'm just an everyday kind of hero. If the everyday kind saves babies from burning buildings and looks hotter than hell in bunker gear.

Focus on what you can do, then do it with all your heart.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hours--his greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle--victorious.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

The quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's personal commitment to excellence and to victory.

You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.