Quotes About Dedication

Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?

I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

Until you find a cause you can die for, you are not worthy to live.

The noblest life is the one laid down for another.

You learn to run by running.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

Every little job counts. Design counts.

The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Desire means never quit.

If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.