Dedication Quotes

I worked my face off.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

I have worked ever since I was 13.

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves.

When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

The best servant does his work unseen.

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

I want to play for years.

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

If you truly want to succeed, be prepared to go the extra mile.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

So long as space remainsSo long as sentient beings'Suffering remainsI will remainIn order to help,In order to serve.

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art.

Every time a football player goes 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.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.

Art is a jealous mistress.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

Excellence is going the extra mile.

There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.

Here's what you must do. It's pretty simple, really, but I didn't say easy. It's what sets those who succeed apart from those who don't: You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.

I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.

An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in.

There is no leisure about politics.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18 I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.