Quotes about Dedication

I don't think I was a fine game coach. I'm trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.

Some days, obviously, I am like 'Today is not the day,' but you got to push through, especially when my aspirations are to be pro, you can't have any bad days.

I am thankful to my fans and producers that I am on my toes all the time to do better. The day you feel you have achieved it all or you are something, then you are gone, and that thought never came to me.

I look for persistence—rather than perfection—in your walk with Me.

I look for persistence—rather than perfection—in your walk with Me. P

have equipped you for specific work that I will enable you to do. What things do you need to say no to in preparation for doing this work?

Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade—not outside it. Whatever we are called to "do" is not a "job" but a sacred vocation.

In the potent words of Dorothy Sayers, our vocation is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

There is one reason the gate is "narrow": it is demanding discipleship.

The only thing that "exploits your gifts" or that taxes you to the limits or that fills your soul or that challenges you to live the dream the most is following Jesus. Some days you may do pretty well; other days you may flub up.

Yahweh is the sort who sticks with what he is stuck with.

The end of the Sermon makes it clear that Jesus expects his followers to take up his words and live them out regardless of the cost. I know of no alternative. Take them or leave them, is what I say to myself.