Dedication Quotes

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to.

You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

O heart, be at peace, becauseNor knave nor dolt can breakWhat's not for their applause,Being for a woman's sake.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

You have the Best Of Me.

Pour your heart and soul into your business. People will notice.

It took me a lifetime.

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

I'm always trying to be the best, on and off the pitch, is also very important. I've always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that's reflected in my career. Always being nominated, winning trophies for the club or individual awards, that's the culmination of many years of dedication, hard work and professionalism and that makes me very happy.

No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?

I work as my father drank.

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

You have to be uncompromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared... Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant. There will be days when you don't feel on top of your game, or meetings in which you aren't at your best, but your commitment remains constant. No compromises.

The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

It's really hard. And it's harder today because of the salary cap. It starts in September at training camp - getting every guy on the same page, being as mentally and physically as focused as you can be. Then in April and May, you basically spend eight weeks practising, watching video and playing games. That's your life.

Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.

The music game is more than just my love for singing, its a sport for me.

You can never be great at anything unless you love it.

There is no substitute for work.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.

Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

I love everything about hockey.

I've never let a rhinestone go unturned

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

Disneyland is a work of love.

You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

There's a choice that we have to make as people, as individuals. If you want to be great at something, there's a choice you have to make. We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make a choice. What I mean by that is, there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be. There are sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.