Devotion Quotes

• I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal

  Abdul Kalam

  Motivational, Goal, Succeed

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.89, Universities Press

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• Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Divinity, Flow

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• With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.

  Rumi

  Heart, Plant, Farmers

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• With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Worthwhile Things, Discipline, Selfless

  Address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, February 21, 1948.

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• Devotion is diligence without assurance

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Diligence, Assurance

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

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• True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Strength, Lying

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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• No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

  Matsuo Basho

  Lying, Passion, Matter

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• Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Real, Unbroken, Receptivity

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• Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.

  Zoroaster

  Fire, Goeth

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• Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Simple, Justice, Serious

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• If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Mean, Doe

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.159, University of Illinois Press

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• But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Life, Marriage

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Apr 02, 2013

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• The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

  Charles Stanley

  Inspirational, Integrity, Character

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• Your depth of commitment,
  your quality of service,
  the product of your devotion --
  these are the things that count in life.

  Scott O'Grady

  Wisdom, Commitment, Quality

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• Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Art, Soul, Age

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.143, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Power, Quality

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• But the challenge is always the same - whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Numbers, People

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at the Dedication of the Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1938.

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• Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

  Golda Meir

  Children, Husband, Women

  Golda Meir, Marie Syrkin (1973). “A land of our own: an oral autobiography”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Grace, Holiness

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.440, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.

  Clarence Francis

  Loyalty, Heart, Soul

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• Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

  Grover Cleveland

  Loyalty, Achievement, Community

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• Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Sole, Existence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.45, Oxford University Press

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• There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Motherhood, Trying

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• In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

  Willie Mays

  Dedication, Order, Constructive Criticism

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