Quotes about Dedication
He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.
- Mark Twain
A man who have not discovered something he will die for, is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
And somewhere along the way it is necessary to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.