Devotion Quotes

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

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.

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

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

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.

I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

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

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!