Quotes About Dedication

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Every Christian is obliged to be the best for God. Like any other worthwhile activity, if leadership can be improved, we should seek to improve it. In so doing, we prepare ourselves for higher service that may be just around the next corner, though unseen at the present.

There are times that you must do everything you can to do everything you must.

Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.

Some made it an excuse for not attending the church service on a Sunday morning, that they could not awake early enough to get their families ready. He provided for this also. Taking a bell in his hand, he set out every Sunday for some months at five in the morning, and went round the most distant parts of the parish inviting all the inhabitants to the house of God.

There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends.

the evangelical Christian is not true to his profession if he leaves his Christianity behind him on Monday morning.

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

until one is committed there is hesitancy

We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One. We die for the One. -- the Ranger oath

Often truly authoritative leadership falls on someone who years earlier dedicated themselves to practice the discipline of seeking first the kingdom of God. Then, as that person matures, God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work throuh him.

Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.