Dedication Quotes - Page 22

• Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sacrifice, Self, Quality

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Sacrifice, Singleness Of Purpose

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• I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Hard Work, Commitment

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• A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, People, Biting

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• I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.

  Daniel Keyes

  Men, Important, Trying

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

  Susan Orlean

  Tunnels, Digging, Vines

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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

  John Mayer

  Life, Commitment, Two

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