Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

You've got to be dedicated and throw yourself into parts and auditions in a way that is completely selfless.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you.

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Bike riding requires permanent sacrifice. It means training 11 months out of 12 and 110 days of racing, whatever the weather conditions. Early in life, I realised I did not have intellectual potential, so I dedicated myself to cycling.

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did two jobs. He did customer service at a hospital and he worked as a waiter at night. He pretty much sacrificed everything for his daughters.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

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.

Unfortunately, some younger player doesn't understand that if you want to get through, you have to sacrifice, you have to work hard, and there is no easy way.

I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.

My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time.

Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.

I'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.

If you want to learn and to become somebody, you must sacrifice some things.