Quotes About Dedication

That is the difference between the 5 percent and everyone else. They know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life. No, let's amend that slightly: they know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life—and they do it. They do the thing, and gain the power.

You already know how to do everything it would take to make you an outrageous success. All you have to do is keep doing the things that have gotten you this far.

successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do—even when it doesn't look like it makes any difference.

If you will commit to showing up consistently, every day, no matter what, then you have already won well more than half the battle.

Simple daily disciplines—little productive actions, repeated consistently over time—add up to the difference between failure and success.

The answer is as simple as it is sad: somewhere along the way, you lost faith. You became too grown-up to take baby steps, too sure you would never succeed to let yourself fail a few times first. You gave up on the universal truth that simple little disciplines, done again and again over time, would move the biggest mountains. You forgot what you used to know about the slight edge.

It's just a matter of mastering the mundane—of repeating simple little disciplines that, done consistently over time, will add up to the very biggest accomplishments.

Good teams have a compelling product vision that they pursue with a missionary-like passion. Bad teams are mercenaries.

I was a big Doug Plank fan," said Tim Ehlebracht, a Blitz wide receiver. "Then my first day of practice I come over the middle, he hits me, and I end up in the hospital after landing on my head.

A beverage of leisure is a serious business," Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. "There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.

world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I was becoming a huge Blister fan.

if you're obsessively focused on trying not to make mistakes, it can take some of the soul out of your performance

You can't quit because there's a Beyoncé in the world. You can't quit because you went to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and realized that everyone on stage knows more about music than you ever will.

And yet, for my art and for my loved ones, I will gladly endure to the end.

Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.

In effect, writers give us a transcript of how the brain works because they look at the images turning up in their own minds with such concentration and dedication.

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

If there is a problem somewhere... this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person -- only one -- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it... [W]hich person are you? -Fr. Longère

Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

You're a serious one, aren't you?" I confirmed that I was and always would be: a serious infant, a serious child, a serious teenager, a serious student, a serious adult.

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?