Quotes About Dedication

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Who would carry the bell canto - Of course Montserrat Caballe

It was as if Lucca was a beautiful kite and Willingham was flying her with an invisible string. Roche, the Ninety-fourth Engineer Detachment Commander, who oversaw about twenty-six dog handlers from the army, air force, and marines, had never seen a dog and handler so perfectly synchronized.

I had vowed it before, but vows are but a paper study for a monument in stone, to be carved out with much sweat, perhaps not without injury, before the thing stands to be admired.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

I withdrew from active work among deficients, and began a more thorough study of the works of Itard and Séguin. I felt the need of meditation. I did a thing which I had not done before, and which perhaps few students have been willing to do,—I translated into Italian and copied out with my own hand, the writings of these men, from beginning to end, making for myself books as the old Benedictines used to do before the diffusion of printing.

I was more than an elementary teacher, for I was present, or directly taught the children, from eight in the morning to seven in the evening without interruption. These two years of practice are my first and indeed my true degree in pedagogy. From the very beginning of my

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

I find that the earnest followers of Christ have very little rest here. Like our Master, we must be about our Father's business.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

You're not free until you've been made captive by / supreme belief.

Que cuál es el secreto de la perseverancia? —El Amor. Enamórate y no "le" dejarás»[8]. Porque el amor es más fuerte que la muerte.

quién es más libre? ¿Quien se reserva todas las posibilidades por temor a perderlas, o quien se dedica "decididamente" a servir y así se encuentra lleno de vida por el amor que ha dado y recibido

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.