Dedication Quotes

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.

I don't intend to stop making music.

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort ofindomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there isno end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process,an ever-renewing process.

When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.

To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the fiarways carving away at it, convinced that perfection lies just over the next rise. And that hope, perhaps, is the kindest bliss of all that golf bestows upon its devotees.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.

My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world.

Work hard at work worth doing.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

When I'm fit I know I'll give my best in each training session to give myself a chance of playing.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.

I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

I am always on the job.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

I'm a workin' girl.

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

I can't do nothing just a little.

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.