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Inspirational Quotes About Devotion

Whether they were heroes, poets, scholars, or leaders, the brightest minds in human history have thought and written about values and their meanings. Use the search field on the left to search our quotation database by author, value, or specific word contained in the quote.

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“I learned that landscape by drawing it, and I came to care for it with a lover's devotion. ”
Philip Pullman
(born 1946); Writer, Author

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“Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.”
Joseph Addison
(1672-1719); English Essayist, Poet, And Politician

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“In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882); Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist

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“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”
Henry Miller
(1891-1980); Author, Writer

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“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else—I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”
Elizabeth II 
(born 1926); Queen Of England

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“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. ”
George J. Mitchell

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“Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.”
Arnold Bennett
(1867-1931); Novelist

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