Quotes about Dedication

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.