Quotes About Dedication

People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.

I recognize that winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

If you pay that price daily by planning and preparing and working to become the right kind of person, then you can legitimately expect to have all that life has to offer.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Much about success is just the result of simply the ability to follow up, follow through, and finish what we started.

duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do things beautifully.

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.

One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.

I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best at, too.

Music was important. Football was the easy part.

By the time events reach the stage where you have to stand and fight, you have to be fully prepared to put everything you've got into it and not hold anything back. You might only get one chance.

For Andy, who encouraged me to write in the first place. See, this is all your fault . . .

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.

Mastery is more than the co-ordination of muscle and bone. It is about bringing the whole of us to what we do

Commitment is nothing but a call to action.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. (Gibran 1970)

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life.

Live for a reason. Live with passion.

Love is my love, power, strength, wealth, and purpose.

If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don't stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don't compromise, and don't waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now.