Quotes About Dedication

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and counting- in an unrelenting effort to stabilize, strengthen, and improve the standing of indigenous peoples, minority groups, and the larger society as well. He is an exemplary Native activist, indeed.

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don't have calluses on your soul, this isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

Its impossible to invest your soul in a compromise.

It is true, of course, that great preachers are always few and far between in any age. But in every age there should be enough preachers to do the job, preachers who are conscientious, who know what it is to labor over Scripture during the week and then on Sunday deliver its truth with some conviction, with some insight, with some depth, and with some application to life, and in the Holy Spirit's power.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child — or a healthy adult.

dont aom for success if u want it just do what u love n believe in and it wil come naturaly.

If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well.

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you go to school every morning and sit there for

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

My experience has taught me that success comes not to those who swing for the fences every time at bat, but to those who commit themselves to a continuous program of constant improvement, base hit by base hit.

McDonald's likes to describe professionals that serve them (such as advertising agencies) as having "ketchup in their veins.

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing

He understood that the key to success, the secret to it, was the mastery of the grunt work, all the little details.

what had kept Lewis going all those years with so little outside support was the idea of improvement as an end in itself.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence," he liked to

He was ever conscious of his obligation to play well. Late in his career, when his legs were bothering him and the Yankees had a comfortable lead in a pennant race, a friend of his, columnist Jimmy Cannon, asked him why he played so hard—the games, after all, no longer meant so much. "Because there might be somebody out there who's never seen me play before," he answered.

On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'" ( One On 1 , interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1 , March 25, 2007.)

To excel in any walk of life, any stage of life, you need to have the two traits of focus and concentration to compliment