Quotes about Dedication

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

No one coasts into Christlikeness. Any progress in godliness requires Spirit-filled effort and purpose.

Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as "the ten-thousand-hour rule."

From biblical times to our time, godly people have always been spiritually disciplined people.

Godliness requires disciplined worship.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be."

He lost himself in visions of work to be done, that always remained to be done.

And in my own pastoral and personal Christian experience, I can say that I've never known a man or woman who came to spiritual maturity except through discipline. Godliness comes through discipline.

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Whatever your life' 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.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.