Best Devoted Quotes

Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

Selfish people are, by definition, those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness. Yet. . . these selfish people are far less likely to be happy than those whose efforts are devoted to making others happy.

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That’s why we get into trouble all the time. We’re always viewed as naive.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be ‘Devoted for Life.’

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the ‘working masses’.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

What is inherently wrong with the word ‘politician’ if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

There are no fans more rabid or devoted than KISS fans. KISS fans are what all other fans are measured against. That’s how it came to be known as the KISS Army.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself.

When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.

We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in His service, and for His Glory!!

It was always my goal to ‘up the ante’ on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.