Quotes about Dedication

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

People who seek to serve the community end up falsifying their work, she wrote, whether the work is writing a novel or baking bread, because they are not single- mindedly focused on the task at hand. But if you serve the work— if you perform each task to its utmost perfection— then you will experience the deep satisfaction of craftsmanship and you will end up serving the community more richly than you could have consciously planned.

If you are once sure what you do want, you find that everything else goes down before it like grass under a roller—all other interests, your own and other people's.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

It takes but a moment to make a convert; it takes a lifetime to manufacture a saint.

It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness seeps into one's attitude, it will show in the quality of one's work.

I want to have a lot to do with winning a championship or bringing a championship back to the city of Philadelphia.

If a footballer goes on the pitch with the right mentality, he will perform well.

Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.

After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

That one . . . she is mine.