Quotes about Dedication

There has not yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Mightily and long must a man strive within himself before he learn altogether to overcome himself, and to draw his whole affection towards God.

He who is not always ready to suffer and to stand completely at the will of his beloved is not worthy to be called a lover, for it behooves a lover gladly to suffer all hard and bitter things for his beloved, and not to fall from love because of any irksome thing that may befall him.

The fewer there are who follow the way to perfection, the harder that way is to find

Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." ~ Ruth 1: 16, 17

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Seeing my name in the newspapers after winning the national junior championship motivated me to win more medals and I have never looked back since then.

If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.

The game is nine innings. It's not two, three. It doesn't matter if it's the fifth through the seventh or the seventh through the ninth. It's not two innings - it's nine.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

In sacrificing for something worthwhile, you deeply strengthen your commitment to it.