Quotes About Dedication

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

What matters, though, is not the space you're put in to work; what matters is the work you do in it. The Manhattan Project, the World War II race to develop the atomic bomb, also started out under a football stadium. Beneath the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi built a crude fission reactor, brought its uranium fuel to critical mass, and set off a chain reaction that changed the world. We

It was better to imagine a sacrifice being for something.

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry—every man of every nation has done that—'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

Soft skills require a lot of hard work.

Oh that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory.

Oh, how sweet it is to be spent and worn out for God!

Oh that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

I longed to spend and be spent for God.

I send my friends e-mail messages about the progress of my garden, especially of my roses. It left them with the impression, I think, that I was concerned with nothing else. I felt no urgency in correcting that notion. People obsessed with their gardens have probably caused the least suffering in the world of any category of men.

You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

outside of my family, the biggest thing in my life. I'd had fights over him, I'd got beaten up because of him.

Performers try harder.

Still, making music is its own reward.

Watch me work! Watch me work! Watch me work!

Someone asked a concert violinist in New York's Carnegie Hall how she became so skilled. She said that it was by "planned neglect." She planned to neglect everything that was not related to her goal.

For man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is that they don't go far enough; they don't have a coherent view of life. Spinning around in the media from moment to moment, they don't stand for anything, push for anything; they're mere opportunists without dedication, and they don't win any victories.

Remember what Glenn Livingston says, "The name of the game, is to stay in the game, until you win the game." So dammit, market like crazy and start making offers. You will start winning and little victories will lead to huge pay days – you can take that to bank, literally.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.