Top 559 Devote Quotes & Sayings

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

I'd never devote a whole record to heartbreak.

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

I have to devote my time and thoughts to training and playing.

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

I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.

I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

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

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

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.

Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.

When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

Designers devote their efforts to change.

I got busy with films and found it difficult to devote time to theatre.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

You never devote yourself to a teacher. You devote yourself to the practice.

The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.

If you devote yourself to positivity, positivity will devote itself to you.

The more we make our lives about us, then the more we waste our time. When we get older, we devote our lives to ourselves, and then we wasted it. If we want to devote our lives to something significant, something that matters, then we should devote our lives to the Lord Jesus.

Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit.

Beauty is the love that we devote to an object.

You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.

I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance - my true being is to be a dancer.

I have a responsibility to devote my energy to my country and my people.

I don't have children, and I'm not in a relationship, so I have the time to devote to myself.

You can't just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to it.

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

Devote 100 hours every year towards the cause of cleanliness.

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

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

In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.

I'm going to devote myself full time to securing and then winning a referendum on leaving the E.U.

I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career.

Because of its huge territory, Russia must devote a great deal of attention to security.

My legislators devote most of their time to attend to people's problems. I want the people to devote more time and contribute to the development of the state.

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.

I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

When I was around ten, I decided I would devote myself and my life to music.

Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.

People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.

It is very necessary to devote unconditional attention to your child so that he doesn't feel neglected.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it. But insofar as theology studies the nature of the divine, it will earn the right to be taken seriously when it provides the slightest, smallest smidgen of a reason for believing in the existence of the divine. Meanwhile, we should devote as much time to studying serious theology as we devote to studying serious fairies and serious unicorns.

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

I choose roles where I do not have to devote a lot of time.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.