Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Nicklaus

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

Jack Nicklaus

Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

Their dedication and devotion to duty has been, to say the least, epic.

The only way you really do this is if you love it. It takes dedication.

We've just been dedicated. We're playing hard ? and together.

I've met all kinds of people from all walks of life and seen the dedication and the passion that they have for our outdoors, the resource program, our wildlife. I've met some great people and I've made a lot of friends.

It's fantastic what's gone into it. His persistence and dedication to his work is worthy of tremendous acclaim.

It's a tribute to our community, our kids and the dedication they have toward girls basketball. It's a great thing for our community, kids and schools.

There's definitely a time loss. There is less dedication and people stop going that extra mile... employees tend to take out their frustration on the organization, not the instigator.

It means people who have a sense of dedication and loyalty to the organization. It means, in its truest sense, the ethos of the company. Something that is revered as the first rite of spring.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.

For the moment, all I can say is that I'm greatly encouraged by what the president has told me, greatly encouraged by his far-seeing attitude, his humanitarianism, his sense of dedication and purpose,

John Cornyn

For the past three decades, William Rehnquist did not simply serve on the bench. He truly loved and revered the court, as only a devoted scholar and student of that great institution could. His dedication was unrivaled,

John Carmack

In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.

All of the years of training and dedication are going to pay off.

All of the environment should express a higher, more-ordered, broadly-complete dedication to the well-designed.

John Coltrane

We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste

Eric Hoffer

The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory..

Eric Hoffer

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

Lavrenti Lopes

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

Rabindranath Tagore

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

John Bingham

Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

Lauryn Hill

Let’s love ourselves, then we can’t fail, To make a better situation. Tomorrow, our seeds will grow, All we need is dedication!

Lauryn Hill

Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.

Sharon Salzberg

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

Maynard Webb

I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.

John F. Kennedy

In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.

John McLaughlin

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

Juan Goytisolo

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

Randy Schekman

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Richard Baxter

Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.

Thomas S. Monson

To you who are worthy and able to attend the temple, I would admonish you to go often. The temple is a place where we can find peace. There we receive a renewed dedication to the gospel and a strengthened resolve to keep the commandments.

Thomas Sowell

We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it... We still have the cathedral of freedom but how long will it last without the faith?