Quotes about Dedication

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.

Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

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.

The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

All great acheivements require time.

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Don't underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.

Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician — the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn't care about reaching out to the world, when you weren't hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.