Quotes About Dedication

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

And once we decide to do something, we should never look back, never regret it.

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow you passions - in a way that serves the world and you.

There is no greater thing you could do in your life and your work, than following your passions- in a way that serves the world and you.

Nowhere is follow-through needed more than in your parenting.

Following through and establishing a baseline of unspoiling takes more work than does maintaining it.

Leaders are not born. Leaders are built.

A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.

Alexander Maclaren writes: "This man, before he was four-and-twenty hours a disciple, had made another. Some of you have been disciples for as many years, and have never even tried to make one."3

We are not responsible for the outcome, but only for our faithful, loving witness.

Donald Grey Barnhouse was one who set an example of combining gospel preaching with humble prayer. He often could be found in the sanctuary on Saturdays, kneeling beside each pew, thinking about the people who often sat there, and asking God to bless them with the following day's sermon.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. It's what you're willing to give up.

I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had its funny side.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

And to Mindy, I can only ever say a simple thank you. And dedicate the rest of my life to her.

Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able,And on the seventh—holystone the decks and scrape the cable.

Accordingly, Mr. Cook spent four years, six months, two days, $5,228.20, six thousand yards of wiring, three hundred and two radio tubes, a generator, reams of paper, dizzying mentation and the good will of his wife in assembling his duplication machine.

Jake Holman loved machinery in the way some other men loved God, women and their country.

Playing the violin or writing a poem are special ways of paying attention. They are acts at once small and great. Although only one person can commit them, they require orderly marshallings of countless and diverse forces, something like the great landing of armies in Normandy, but incalculably bigger and more complicated.

Why she hankered to be a teacher, I couldn't tell you. But she had chalk dust in her veins, and she deserved to get that certificate. It was only fair.

At school we practiced for the Christmas program all month long. Miss Butler couldn't sing either, but she was a feisty director. . . . She took the Christmas program personally, as teachers do.

They can't believe a kid worked for months on an original idea, for no reason at all except the pleasure of looking until you see something.