#Dedication Quotes

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Art is a jealous mistress.”

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

“There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”

“The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.”

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

“The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.”

“Individuals who succeed have a belief in the power of commitment. If there's a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it's that there's no great success without commitment. If you look at successful people in any field, you'll find they're not necessarily the best and the brightest, the fastest and the strongest. You'll find they're the ones with the most commitment.”

“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.”

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

“Canadian players have started to put more of an importance on the World Championships in the sense that as soon as they lose, they are called, they want to go play and they don't go only on the basis of if they are injured.”

“I love everything about hockey.”

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

“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.”

“Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.”

“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.”

“Artists must be sacrificed to their art.”

“It's never crowded along the extra mile.”

“I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.”

“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.”

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

“To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.”

“Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.”

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

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

“Disneyland is a work of love.”

“I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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