Quotes About Dedication

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

He never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman whose business it is to catch Pegasus at once, not to practise for him by mounting tamer colts. This is hard, hot and generally ungraceful work, but it is not drudgery. For drudgery is not art, and cannot lead to it.

You can't build a house on the sand, and passion's sand. We want bed rock …

Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I'd learn. Nothing was going to stop me.

That settles it. I'm your man." "You mean it?" "Yes--for to-night.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

one extra hour of study per day and you 'll be a national expert in five years or less

Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration. See

we can achieve nothing without paying the price.

A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that's what she wants to do.

you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality. It not only will, there's no way that it cannot.

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings

To those you care for, a nurse is a person of many faces: You are a warrior against death and suffering, a technician of the highest degree; you are a mother, a sister, a best friend, a psychiatrist; you are a teacher, a magician, a sounding board, a secretary, a fortuneteller, a politician, but most of all, you are a loving human being who has chosen to give that love in one of the best ways you can.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

Whatever you do, remember that. You're going to make a difference. A lot of times it won't be huge, it won't be visible even. But it will matter just the same. Don't do it for praise or money, that's what I want to tell you. Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better.

Somewhere out there, there's a thing so amazing that you can devote your life to it and never forget how special it is.

Finally, after three long, hot, and dry weeks, we were at the end of training. We were snipers! Marine scout-snipers! DuBay chaired a formal meeting and pronounced each of us ready, trained, and real live, bonafide snipers. And damned if we didn't think we were.

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

This leads us to an important spiritual principle for growth: comeback leaders know that our Lord considers commitment to Him and His desires an indispensable ingredient to growing spiritually and numerically.

God does not want us distracted. He does not want our loyalties to be divided. Our allegiances are to be His alone. He loves us that intensely.

Dedicating ourselves to Scripture reading, prayer, and fasting enables us to reset our minds, steering us away from the road toward outrage and onto the path of peace.

When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.