Quotes about Dedication
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
— Epictetus
There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day.
— Will Smith
If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.
— Will Smith
If he give me credit for being a plodder he will describe me justly. Anything beyond that will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.
— William Carey
The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
— William Faulkner
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
— William Faulkner
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
— William Faulkner
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
— William Hazlitt
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
— William Hazlitt
The whole art of training consists in two things, exercise and abstinence, abstinence and exercise, repeated alternately without end.
— William Hazlitt
Oh that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory.
— David Brainerd
Oh, how sweet it is to be spent and worn out for God!
— David Brainerd