Quotes About Dedication

Every disciplined effort has its own multiple reward.

Catherine of Sienna wrote, "If you are what you should be you will set the whole world on fire.

The most dominant quality among Dynamic Catholics is a daily routine of prayer. • A daily routine refers to a specific time and place set aside for prayer. Dynamic Catholics make this time a priority each day.

If you do not, you will not.

Working halfheartedly may reap you the same financial compensation as working with all your heart and soul, but it will slowly begin to rot your heart and mind and soul. Humans were not designed for halfheartedness

Satisfaction comes from emptying ourselves into things.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Acceptance is the key to the third level of intimacy. If two people can develop the acceptance necessary to respect each other's opinions, enjoy each other's company despite differences of opinion, and remain dedicated to a common search for truth, then something wonderful happens: the gates of intimacy swing wide open.

You will never have more happiness than discipline…People are most fully alive when they embrace a life of discipline, it awakens us from our philosophical stupor.

You can get good at something just by working hard at it. If you've got some talent and you work hard at it, you can get really, really good at it. But excellence, peak performance, being the best you can be at something—that doesn't happen without coaching.

Working halfheartedly may reap you the same financial compensation as working with all your heart and soul, but it will slowly begin to rot your heart and mind and soul.

Working halfheartedly may reap you the same financial compensation as working with all your heart and soul, but it will slowly begin to rot your heart and mind and soul. Humans were not designed for halfheartedness. So often I have heard people talk about how they will get back at their boss by being lazy or dragging their feet on a project. This is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

In any successful business, everybody has to be part of the sales force.

Joan of Arc wrote, "I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying—even more terrible than dying young.

nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Nunca faltes a tu tiempo de oración diaria. Si surge algo inesperado, hazlo más temprano, pero nunca pospongas tu oración. Si lo haces, te encontrarás casi inevitablemente al final del día habiendo estado ocupado con tantas cosas que significan muy poco en el gran esquema de las cosas, pero sin pasar tiempo con Dios de esta manera tan poderosa y personal

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

This book is dedicated to my wife and daughters, for whom I would willingly buckle a knapsack to my back and march anywhere.

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid – but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.' oscar wilde

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well. She had worked hard for years, and if she had nothing to show for it but her house and her son's education, there was still the fact of its having happened, which no one could erase from the record of human lives, even if no one was keeping one.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

She saw that he couldn't live in a way other than the one he thought was right, and when he saw what the right thing was, like now, he cared about it as if it were the only thing that mattered.

The culture fills our heart and minds with spectacular dreams about hitting home runs, but life is about getting up every day and hitting a single.

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanced and truly compassionate human being?