Quotes About Dedication

Prayer is a solemn work as any thou canst go about in thy whole lifetime.

If he cannot shed tears, much less will he bleed for truth.

The believer is to persevere in his Christian course to the end of his life: his work and his life must go off the stage together.

I could not shake my point of view, infected as it was, and I took up their study with a manly passion.

She crowds each moment with endeavor.

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

Serious writing must nowadays be written for the sake of the art. The condition I describe is not extraordinary. Certain scientists, philosophers, historians, and many mathematicians do the same, advancing their causes as they can. One must be satisfied with that.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

The whole art of training consists in two things, exercise and abstinence, abstinence and exercise, repeated alternately without end.

It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop them again as soon as he made the discovery that they one and all entailed months and even years of hard work if he was ever to fulfil his ambitious desire of doing and being something great in the world.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.

90 percent of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

My heart is in this work, for it is not a question of 'Will we win' or 'Will we lose.' We must win, and that is all there is to it.

I'll tell you what I think defines greatness. The ability and willingness to perform in extraordinary ways.

leaning hard into the wind in order to complete the job expected of him. He was an Eagle

We were too sick of the case to talk about it anymore but too obsessed with it to talk about anything else.

she was one of those selective, ferociously loyal people who, once they have taken you in, will stand by you through the most desperate times. Such people have few acquaintances and many friends. They withhold their affection because it costs them so much to give it so completely, and because they never—ever—revoke it. If you are lucky, you may meet one or two of them in your life.