Quotes About Dedication

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

You're no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be an assistant.

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start — but they can't when they finish.

The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.

Martin L. Shoemaker

French and Italian hospitality industries, food service employees take pleasure in being the best at what they do. They may be the finest oyster shucker, the most knowledgeable vintner, an expert cheese purveyor. Toiling in an American supermarket is widely presumed to be a stopgap job, seldom a vocation.

Having purpose differs from having any particular purpose. You get meaning in life from the purposes that you join. But after working in a particular discipline, industry, or job for twenty or thirty or forty years, you begin to be wedded to that specific purpose, that particular form.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word.

We must pray and do our daily work, but everything we do must flow from faith.

For all our life should be baptism, and the fulfilling of the sign, or sacrament, of baptism; we have been set free from all else and wholly given over to baptism alone

For we have vowed enough in baptism, more than we can ever fulfill; if we give ourselves to the keeping of this one vow, we shall have all we can do.

The best commendation of any work is to know that one has done the work that God has given him well and that God is pleased with his effort.

The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine.

A good preacher should have these properties and virtues: 1. Teach systematically 2. Have a ready wit 3. Be eloquent 4. Have a good voice 5. Have a good memory 6. Know when to make an end 7. Be sure of his doctrine 8. Venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honour, in the Word 9. Suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of every one

Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

The question is not whether we will be extremists but what kind of extremist will we be.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.