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Inspirational Quotes About Devotion

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Index_card_top “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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Index_card_top “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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Index_card_top “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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Index_card_top “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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Index_card_top “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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Index_card_top “Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.”
 
Joseph Addison (1672-1719);
English Essayist, Poet, Playwright And Politician.
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Index_card_top “A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.”
 
Jack Dempsey (1895-1983);
Heavy Weight Boxer


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Index_card_top “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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“Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy.”
 
Bhagavad Gita (born 500);

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Index_card_top “When we got home from that race that night, Rick wrote on the computer, 'Dad, when I run it feels like my disability disappears.' So, that was a very powerful message to me.”
 
Dick Hoyt (born 1940);
Athlete, Inspirational Speaker


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“I am because you are.”
 
African Proverb -
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“Life doesn't come with an instruction book. That's why we have fathers.”
 
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Writer
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“History provides abundant examples of people whose greatest gift was in redeeming, inspiring, liberating, and nurturing the gifts of others.”
 
Sonya Rudikoff - Author


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“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. ”
 
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959);
Architect
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“The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.”
 
Ross Parmenter - Anthropologist
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