Top 200 Dedication Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Without football, my life is worth nothing.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

52. “I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.”

— Kobe Bryant

53. “Never hope for it more than you work for it.”

— Rita Mae Brown

54. “The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.”

— Michael Josephson

55. “The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.”

— Stephen R. Covey

56. “Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

57. “Do whatever you have to do to make sure you chase your legacy every second of your life.”

— Ray Lewis

58. “If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.”

— John C. Maxwell

59. “There is always someone out there working harder than you, and you may be standing next to him or her in your next competition.”

— Robert Cheeke

60. “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

61. “Mackay’s Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.”

— Harvey MacKay

62. “Success doesn’t happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don’t look back.”

— Erin Andrews

63. “Rest if you must, but never quit.”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

64. “Don’t quit. You’re already in pain. You’re already hurt. Get a reward from it!”

— Eric Thomas

65. “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.”

— Simon Sinek

66. “I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder next time.”

— Michael Jordan

67. “If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.”

— Cory Booker

68. “Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.”

— Henry Rollins

69. “I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down...”

— Tom Petty

70. “No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.”

— Henry Rollins

71. “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.”

— Jocko Willink

72. “Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.”

— Jon Gordon

73. “Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.”

— Barack Obama

74. “We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.”

— Kobe Bryant

75. “I don’t have talent. I have tenacity.”

— Henry Rollins

76. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

— Newt Gingrich

77. “The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever is your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work.”

— Oprah Winfrey

78. “Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.”

— Jaggi Vasudev

79. “There is no plan B for passion.”

— Chris Gardner

80. “The only thing in your control is effort. That’s all, and that’s everything.”

— Mark Cuban

81. “Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.”

— Ray Lewis

82. “Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It’s not about what you can dream of. That’s easy. It’s about whether or not it’s important enough to you to do the work to be ready to be successful in that business.”

— Mark Cuban

83. “Most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it badly enough. You just kind of want it. You don’t want it more than you want to party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep.”

— Eric Thomas

84. “Dedication, hard work all the time, and belief.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

85. “He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”

— James Allen

86. “Mediocrity is easy; the good things take time, the great things need commitment.”

— Bob Seger

87. “The real workout begins when you want to stop.”

— Anonymous

88. “The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.”

— Bob Parsons

89. “Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.”

— Elbert Hubbard

90. “Without commitment, you’ll never start. But more importantly, without consistency, you’ll never finish.”

— Denzel Washington

91. “I’ve gotta breathe it, I’ve gotta eat it, I’ve gotta sleep it and until you get there you will never be successful in life. But once you get there I guarantee you, the world is yours. So work hard, and you can have whatever it is that you want.”

— Eric Thomas

92. “I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.”

— Og Mandino

93. “I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”

— Margaret Thatcher

94. “I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?”

— William Shakespeare

95. “Throw yourself wholeheartedly into your work; the more you enjoy it, the better you get.”

— Brian Tracy

96. “Don’t expect front row seats if you’re giving nosebleed effort.”

— Eric Thomas

97. “The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

— Steven Pressfield

98. “My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.”

— Thomas A. Edison

99. “If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”

— Charles Studd

100. “The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen.”

— Anonymous