Quotes About Dedication

Lucky is where skill meets persistence.

The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.

If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.

Sometimes people just see the overall success and it overshadows our true love for music and how much we love to record. I love to record music and I love to see the reception of it even more!

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

My music career has been very rewarding, but success never came easily.

Sometimes my success is attributed to my height (which is 7'2"), which I won't deny does help to an extent. But honestly, the rest comes from a healthy mix of workout and practice everyday.

If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.

My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.

Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.

Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential.

To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Success in business isn't about being right; it's about being committed.

In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.

For me, success to me is waking up and doing what you're doing every day, whatever that looks like to me.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.