Quotes About Dedication

If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off. Ways and means plus determination.

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My loyalty was not to any one President, but rather, to the Presidency, and to the institution that is the White House.

I have but one career, and its name is Ike," Mrs. Eisenhower once announced.

There are three types of student: The golden student pays and loans, the silver student pays but does not learn, the bronze student learns but does not pay.

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

Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all. Be thorough, be real, be honest, be sound, be whole-hearted. If you have any religion at all, let your religion be real. See that you do not sin the sin of Lot's wife.

It is useless to say you have no time. There is plenty of time, if men will employ it. Time may be short, but time is always long enough for prayer. Daniel had the affairs of a kingdom on his hands, and yet he prayed three times a day. David was ruler over a mighty nation, and yet he says, "Evening and morning and at noon will I pray" (Psalms 55:17). When time is really wanted, time can always be found.

Anything is better than apathy, stagnation, deadness, and indifference.

If there is anything which a man ought to do thoroughly, authentically, truly, honestly, and with all of his heart, it is the business of his soul. If there is any work which he ought never to slight, and do in a careless fashion, it is the great work of "working out his own salvation" (Philippians 2:12). Believer in Christ, remember this! Whatever you do in religion, do it well. Be authentic. Be thorough. Be honest. Be true.

A believer may as soon expect to feel the sun's rays on a dark and cloudy day as to feel strong consolation in Christ while he does not follow Him fully.

You can give everything you have, and when you're done, you can have more than you began with.

We PT every morning as a group, and some of us are fast. I'm not the hare of the group, but I'm not in the goon squad, either.

You know, it's quite exciting to watch a professional at work if you bother to look. I mean going at a job he does really well. You look at him with new eyes from then on. In this odd sort of way I was seeing Moon for the first time.

Since when was being tired an excuse to stop trying?

A baseball beat writer once warned me that covering baseball every single day will cure you of your love of baseball, quick.

It cost me everything, absolutely everything, but maybe it's not love if it doesn't cost us everything.

Begeisterung ist keine Heringsware, die man einpökelt auf einige Jahre.

We could have done it at our studios in England, but the movie would have then started off looking artificial," says Kershner. "We decided to go for reality. Unfortunately, it was Norway's coldest winter in 100 years. That's why you prepare for a film as if you were a prizefighter—I ran two miles a day for months before it, because I knew what to expect.

I think you're worth fighting for, Elizabeth. Even if I'm fighting you for you.

I want us to be together, Evelyn, which I know won't be easy, but nothing worth having ever comes easy. If there's something you want, you have to work hard to have it. And I want you.

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.