Quotes About Devote

#1. We learn to pray by praying. One can devote countless hours to examining the experiences of others, but nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal fervent prayer and its heaven sent response.

Thomas S. Monson

#2. I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

Edie Falco

#3. But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

Gene Tunney

#4. I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

David Byrne

#5. What is crucial in the true state is not the fact that every citizen has the chance to devote himself to the universal interest in the shape of a particular class, but the capacity of the universal class to be really universal, i.e. to be the class of every citizen.

Karl Marx

#6. It's not about the amount of time you devote but rather what you devote to that time that counts.

Neil Patel

#7. The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn't devote his life to it of his own free will.

Steven Pressfield

#8. And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.

Ben Kingsley

#10. When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself
nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#11. Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks.

John F. Kennedy

#12. We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words
and own passages that speak to us. (p. 41)

Thomas Newkirk

#13. In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

Dirk Benedict

#14. And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I would try to persuade him to devote himself first to the work of someone greater, interpreting or translating him.

Stefan Zweig

#15. Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.

Jose Saramago

#16. Love truth and its fruits of life, for yourself and for others; devote to study and to the profitable use of study the best part of your time and your heart.

Antonin Sertillanges

#17. It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#18. You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.

Michael Hastings

#19. If Marx came back to life today, he would probably urge his few remaining disciples to devote less time to reading Das Kapital and more time to studying the Internet and the human genome.

Yuval Noah Harari

#20. The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time to a score that it deserves, I'll pass. I'll also turn down a film if its moral position is different than what my own understanding of right and wrong.

John Keltonic

#21. There is nothing we can do longer than think, no activity to which we can devote ourselves more regularly nor more easily:

Michel De Montaigne

#22. If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks
eternal marks.

Beth Moore

#23. I think animals help us live; they've helped me live. It was only when I began to devote myself to protecting animals that I blossomed completely. Taking care of them, looking out for them, has given my life true meaning, a meaning I hope future generations can experience.

Brigitte Bardot

#24. I agree with the Speaker and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires.

Michael Ashcroft

#25. To devote yourself to someone else's pussy can be a means of devoting yourself to your own.

Maggie Nelson

#26. I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people what fraction of their incomes they should devote to providing for their own or someone else's old age.

Milton Friedman

#27. Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

Olusegun Obasanjo

#28. I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

James C. Scott

#29. Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

Winston Churchill

#30. Recognizing our responsibilities as industrialists, we will devote ourselves to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people through our business activities, thereby enhancing the quality of life throughout the world.

Konosuke Matsushita

#31. Young Arab men are not going to walk away from extremism because they can suddenly afford a Slurpee. They will walk away when they can devote themselves to a some call to serve a cause that connects nationalism to dignity and democracy and transcends a lifetime.

David Brooks

#32. If it is unappetizing: Do not eat, date, or sign up for it. If the mere thought of it is depressing: Do not major in it, sit through it, or devote your life to it. If it is not important to you: Do not do it only because it is important to someone else. You will thank yourself

Jessica Hagy

#33. The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

Margrethe II Of Denmark

#34. If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

Mark Nepo

#35. In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke - was prepared to devote my life to become the second best film director in my family.

George Stevens Jr.

#36. If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God. The Spirit's primary vehicle for moving and speaking in our lives is the Scriptures

Anonymous

#37. The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

Andrea Dworkin

#38. I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#39. If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything ... we all need to collectively devote to make our country move forward.

Narendra Modi

#40. Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.

Paul Bloom

#41. There's evil in this world; I've seen it and I will devote my life to protecting you from it.
But baby, my head's so fucked up and you're the only thing that keeps me thinking straight.
Stay here and be mine.

Suzanne Steele

#42. Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.

Carrie Underwood

#43. Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#44. A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#45. A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

Han Fei

#46. I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

#47. In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser. To be a winner, we must devote time and hard work. To be a loser you do nothing, and that's exactly what you will get, nothing.

John Patrick Boles

#48. There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

John Glenn

#49. If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "Can I pursue this till the end? Am I sure I will never give up on it?" This is persistence.

Israelmore Ayivor

#50. I find it quite incredible how much peace and quiet a person actually needs in order to devote himself entirely to his thoughts.

Oddny Eir

#51. The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

Bill Watterson

#52. The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

Isidore Of Seville

#53. The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

Edmund Wilson

#54. I devote my sacred life to the service of humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#55. Devote what time I may still have to live to no other occupation than that of endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of Nature, which shall be of such a kind as to enable us there from to deduce rules in medicine of greater certainty than those in present use.

Russell Shorto

#56. 102You who believe, be mindful of God, as is His due, and make sure you devote yourselves to Him, to your dying moment.

Anonymous

#57. Let one embrace his own truth and devote himself to its fulfillment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#58. Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent of customers who provide 80 per cent.

Richard Koch

#59. I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Elie Wiesel

#60. I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society.

Michael Sandel

#61. The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Philip Yancey

#62. Why save the rainforest, the whales, or the world when you can devote your time to saving syllables?

Lindsay Faith Rech

#63. I love you, but I should poorly serve the work to which I devote myself anew at the side of one to whom it were less than the greatest thing in the world!

Edmond Rostand

#64. Treat others as you would be treated. Devote yourself to that, for there's no more direct approach to Humanity.

Mencius

#65. That's quite a performance you gave earlier [...] I'm sure the theater lost a fine actor when you chose to devote yourself to murder and cannibalism.

Ransom Riggs

#66. September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.

Bill Frist

#67. I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

Narendra Modi

#68. O fairest of all creation, last and best
Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled
Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost,
Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote?

John Milton

#69. To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

William Temple

#70. Human love is to devote a part of ourselves to the providence of another existence. To be without this devotion is to be void of love.

Michael Hollingworth

#71. The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing.

Pankaj Mishra

#72. If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

George Lucas

#73. Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

Jack London

#74. To men who think prayer their main business and devote time to it according to this high estimate of its importance does God commit the keys of His kingdom, and by them does He work His spiritual wonders in this world

E. M. Bounds

#75. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.

Tom Rath

#76. The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#77. The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#78. One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

Donald Johanson

#79. Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

Alan Watts

#80. Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day.

Robin Sharma

#81. A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#82. We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.

John L. Phillips

#83. All great and famous people understand that the chief priority in their life is to discover oneself, ones calling and to devote one's life to its fulfilment

Sunday Adelaja

#84. If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely - legend, Mr Wayne.

Henri

#85. Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful. By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.

Abdu'l- Baha

#86. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.

Plato

#87. I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

Claude Monet

#88. We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.

John Calvin

#89. If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.

Daniel Gillies

#90. 6Night prayera makes a deeper impression and sharpens words - 7 you are kept busy for long periods of the day - 8so celebrate the name of your Lord and devote yourself wholeheartedly to Him.

Anonymous

#91. I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

Hayley Williams

#92. I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

Ann Bancroft

#93. Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.

Sathya Sai Baba

#94. The best leaders devote almost all of their energy to inspiring and enabling others.

Brad Lomenick

#95. Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.

Dallas Willard

#96. Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage.

Malcolm X

#97. Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

Max Stirner

#98. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds", says Mrs. Phillips. "Our members will not be allowed to wear, or buy, ant hats with feathers, and they must devote themselves to the cause of protecting the birds and discouraging their wanton destruction.

Helen Humphreys

#99. Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.

Timothy Keller

#100. It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

Marilyn Vos Savant