Quotes About Dedication

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.

Try a little harder to be a little better.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

You'll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.