Quotes about Dedication

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

O for ten years, that I may overwhelmMyself in poesy; so I may do the deedThat my own soul has to itself decreed.

Considering myself called of my God to instruct the ignorant, comfort the sorrowful, confirm the weak, and rebuke the proud; by tongue and lively voice in these corrupt days rather than to compose books for the age to come, seeing that so much is written, and yet so little well observed, I decree to contain myself within the bounds of that vocation whereunto I found myself especially called.

People do not risk their lives in the face of persecution to uphold a view they believe to be in error or only somewhat probable.

I like very much to do movies.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.