Quotes about Dedication

Intentions must mature into commitments if we are to become persons with definition, with character, with substance.

The mark of a certain kind of genius is the ability and energy to keep returning to the same task relentlessly, imaginatively, curiously, for a lifetime. Never give up and go on to something else; never get distracted and be diverted to something else.

Joel Henderson was once asked how he had managed to write all those books. He replied that he had never written a book. All he did was write one page a day. With his limited energy and restricted imagination, a page at a time was all that he could manage. But when a year was up he had a 365-page book.

I called you to live at your best, to pursue righteousness, to sustain a drive toward excellence.

That's when the phrase (from Nietzsche) "a long obedience in the same direction" embedded itself in my imagination and eventually became this book.

Anyone signing up for the kingdom of God has to go through plenty of hard times.

The central reality for Christians is the personal, unalterable, persevering commitment God makes to us. Perseverance is not the result of our determination, it is the result of God's faithfulness.

Much effort, much prosperity.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

When you go in there and fight, you pretty much relinquish and give up the right to make any excuses about something.

I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.

When you go out there, you're not just representing your country or the NBA: you're representing your beliefs. You want to play hard for Someone who died for you.