Quotes About Dedication

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

Not mastery but service," will lead people in the right way.

be the best loved who have contributed most to

The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

I admire the elegance of his calculation method; it must be great to ride those fields on the horse of genuine mathematics while we have to do our hard work on foot

Herhangi bir ders veya hobiye duyulan sevginin, gorev duygusundan daha iyi bir ogretmen olduguna inaniyorum; en azindan kendim acisindan.

in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

This might sound extreme, perhaps even a little deranged, but I don't think you can make it to the very top rank in any sport if you don't have a similar aversion to losing—a visceral, physical loathing. I look for this trait in an athlete, although the hatred of losing has to be balanced by a certain degree of realism, an ability to step back just enough so that you can process your disappointing performance and learn from it.

Da se napiše loša knjiga, treba isto toliko truda kao i da se napiše dobra.

A War Memorial was, in its very nature, a work dedicated to God. It was a token of thankfulness that the first stage in the culminating world–war had been crowned by the triumph of righteousness; it was at the same time a visibly embodied supplication that God might not long delay the Advent which alone could bring the final peace.

To the athlete, all things are forgiven

The first condition of success in magick is purity of purpose.

Practise a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; a thousand thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and it is no longer Thou that doeth it, but It that doeth itself through thee.

I once knew a man who built a railway all for himself.

Aangezien wanhoop een buitensporigheid was die hij niet kende, boog hij zich over datgene wat er was overgebleven van zijn leven, en begon dat opnieuw te verzorgen, met de onwrikbare vasthoudendheid van een tuinman aan het werk, de ochtend na de storm.

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

People stuck by others for years and years, in the face of all odds, and it should be relief, not disbelief, that one felt on witnessing it.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

There are many sick vehicles here, and I cannot leave them. They are not dying, said Mma Makutsi firmly. They will still be here when we come back.

She had always worked as hard as she could, at everything she did, and she simply did not understand how anybody could do otherwise. How could they sit there, as they did, and stare into the space in front of their desks when they could be adding up figures or checking the drivers' returns?