dedication quotes

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Our work is never over.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

I do my job like I breathe.

Let me tell you something about Tunechi – about that boy. That boy comes to the studio every day and grind as if he doesn’t have a dollar in his pocket.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

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

Cleveland fans are awesome.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.