Quotes about Dedication

Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.

The only way to pray is to pray, and the way to pray well is to pray much.

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.