100+ Dedication Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

topic: Reality, Dedication, Cost

My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.

- Margaret Chase Smith

topic: Jobs, Dedication, People, Community Service, Completeness

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.

- Margaret Chase Smith

topic: Jobs, Dedication, People

The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.

- Margaret Halsey

topic: Art, Creativity, Dedication, Unruly

I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.

- Mario Lemieux

topic: Hard Work, Thinking, Dedication, Hard Work And Dedication

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Dedication, Acting, Actors, Best Acting, Actors And Acting

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

- Marshall Ganz

source: Marshall Ganz (2010). “Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement”, p.8, Oxford University Press

topic: Commitment, Dedication, Imagination, Challenging The Status Quo

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

- Marshall Goldsmith

source: Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.189, Profile Books

topic: Hard Work, Sacrifice, Dedication

For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. The great artists have been open-minded, even though they may seem, like Picasso, to be very directed, you can be directed and open-minded at the same time. I think you have to be really intensely serious about your work, but not so serious that you can't see the lightness that may also involve your life. You have to have that lightness too. You have to not be so heavy-handed and so ostentatious. It's very important not to be.

- Martha Stewart

topic: Real, Thinking, Dedication, Ostentatious

Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.

- Matt Smith

topic: Sacrifice, Dedication, Discipline

RaÃºl is a born goal-scorer. He was always in the right place at the right time. He was a great professional â€“ one of the best to emerge from our country. His dedication, discipline and talent were superb. To talk about RaÃºl is to talk about a thoroughbred striker. He is, perhaps, one of the last true center forwards produced by El Salvador.

- Mauricio Cienfuegos

topic: Country, Dedication, Goal

Love happened. She would have never thought that it could happen so rapidly. Love was something you worked at, and she had no doubt their relationship would take a lot of hard work and dedication. But it had simply happened. No explanation. No cataclysmic event or earth-shattering revelation brought on by some external event. It had simply happened.

- Maya Banks

topic: Hard Work, Dedication, Doubt, Hard Work And Dedication

I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.

- Maynard Webb

source: "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

topic: Dedication, Impact, Entrepreneur

The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.

- Michael Lang

topic: Country, Art, Dedication, Woodstock, Crescendo

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

- Michael Parenti

topic: Recovery, Dedication, Political, Social Reform

For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.

- Mirra Komarovsky

topic: Dedication, Discipline, Pay

It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

- Morris Graves

topic: Prayer, Dedication, Wind, Best Person

A lot of the difference between an IM and GM is a seriousness to the game. The GM is willing to go through all this. He's willing to put up with anything. This shows his dedication. One other thing is the GMs superiority in tactics. For example Christiansen can find tactics in any position. If you're a GM you should be able to overpower the IM tactically. The GM will often blow out the IM in this area.

- Nick de Firmian

topic: Blow, Dedication, Games

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

- Niklaus Wirth

topic: Work, Simple, Dedication, Job Well Done, Dispensable

Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.

- Nonie Darwish

source: Address at the Feat of Tabernacles convention, Jerusalem, 2007.

topic: Blessed, Dedication, Self

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

- Olusegun Obasanjo

source: Olusegun Obasanjo, Ad' Obe Obe (2004). “A new dawn: a collection of speeches of President Olusegun Obasanjo”, Spectrum Books Ltd

topic: Struggle, Dedication, Law, Constant Struggle

I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.

- Pablo Casals

topic: Art, Work, Dedication, Enslavement, Hurling

On closer inspection, the hero status accorded to Abraham, Moses and David in the Old Testament (and echoed in the New Testament) is rooted not in their moral perfection but in their uncompromising dedication to the cause of Yahweh and their rugged trust in the promises of God rather than lapsing into the idolatry of many of their contemporaries.

- Paul Copan

source: Paul Copan (2011). “Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God”, p.67, Baker Books

topic: Hero, Dedication, Perfection, Moral Perfection, Yahweh

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

- Paulina Porizkova

source: "Aging" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.

topic: Patience, Hard Work, Dedication

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

- Pete Maravich

topic: Basketball, Dedication, Light, Focus On Yourself, Fade Away

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

- Pope Francis

topic: Dedication, Noble, Common, Practise

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Prayer, Dedication

God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.

- Pope Pius XII

source: "America", Vol. 100, by America Press, (p. 121), 1958.

topic: Independent, Dedication, Self, Human Family

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Dedication, Leisure, Faces

Because you don't belong with him! I tried to tell you that, but you wouldn't listen, and I thought if you understood that he'd be better off without you, you'd break up with him for his own good. So I...exaggerated how easy it'd be for him to get over you, with Sabine there to step in. But I underestimated how incredibly stubborn you are" "I prefer to think of it as dedication..." I mumbled.

- Rachel Vincent

topic: Thinking, Dedication, Over You, Kaylee, Exaggerated

Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

- Radhanath Swami

topic: Religious, Dedication, Giving, Religious Experience

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

- Rafael Nadal

source: Rafael Nadal, John Carlin (2011). “Rafa: My Story”, p.68, Hachette UK

topic: Winning, Dedication

Hard work is the main thing-hard work and dedication. And I think a great part of it is goal setting. You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. Every goal that I've set, I've been able to achieve. That's been very fulfilling.

- Rafael Palmeiro

topic: Hard Work, Thinking, Dedication, Hard Work And Dedication

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

- Rahm Emanuel

topic: Running, Dedication, Cities, Reelection

Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Dream, Wall, Dedication, Last Lecture, Childhood Dreams

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

- Randy Schekman

topic: Dedication, Ideas, Curiosity

Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.

- Richard Baxter

source: Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.19

topic: Dedication, Soul, Body, Habitual

I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.

- Rickson Gracie

topic: Believe, Dedication, Mma

A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.

- Robert de Castella

topic: Running, Dedication, People, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Dedicate yourself to Love. Decide to let Love be your intention, your purpose, and your point. And then let Love inspire you, support you and guide you in every other dedication you make thereafter.

- Robert Holden

source: Robert Holden (2008). “Success Intelligence”, p.128, Hay House, Inc

topic: Loving Yourself, Love Is, Dedication

You'll know you're amazing when you get devoted to making other people amazing.