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Quotes About Dedication

when true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you work you will never go hungry.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't like the fact that doctors are referred to as practicing.
~ Unknown
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
~ Herodotus
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
~ Vidal Sassoon
Most people like hard work particularly when they're paying for it.
~ Franklin P. Jones
Miracles sometimes occur but one has to work terribly hard for them.
~ Chaim Weizmann
In a professional once engaged the performance of the job comes first.
~ Garson Kanin
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
~ G. K. Chesterton
A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.
~ Anonymous
Amateurs hope. Professionals work.
~ Garson Kanin
While I am busy with little things I am not required to do greater things.
~ St. Francis de Sales
Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.
~ Mary Daly
When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.
~ Tennessee Williams
There are certain natures to whom work is nothing the act of work everything.
~ Arthur Symons
If you're in a good profession it's hard to get bored because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.
~ Julia Child
Work means so many things! So many! Among other things work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.
~ Eleonora Duse
One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too.
~ Unknown
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
~ Nathaniel Emmons
I know a lot of people think it's monotonous down the black lines over and over but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.
~ Unknown
Do your duty until it becomes your joy.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
~ Julie Andrews
Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.
~ Maria Goeppert Mayer
When people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
~ Betty Bender