Quotes About Dedication

Cara didn't bother to respond. She knew Jessica was like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—she always got her man.

He stopped and glared at her. "It's a lifetime commitment in my book, lady. It's not an arrangement you nullify when things get a little tough to bear.

I want someone wonderful. I want a man to love me the way Michael loves you. I want a man willing to fight for me. I want a man who won't let me walk away from him.

Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did mirrored her faith. It was as though every waking hour of the day she was devoted to pleasing her God by serving others. This God that she worshiped consumed her. It didn't ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This God wanted all of her.

Anything less than your best dishonors God

This god that she worshiped consumed her. It didn't ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This god wanted all of her.

Michael straightened. "I still married her, and I'd marry her again if I had it to do over." A simple statement, calmly and quietly delivered, but his eyes were burning with wrath.

was used to teachers just putting in time, not loaded with enthusiasm.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

You'll have to bury me. His heart lightened. All right, he said. We'll baptize you.

Cook advised aspiring authors against waiting for inspiration, which he believed to be the last resort of the lazy writer. He himself had written two 33,000-word stories a week for months at a time. And this was precisely the schedule Gardner set for

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.

Be the best. There is no second place.

Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard—but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

Frank Bettger

Don't be afraid of it. Learn it. Work hard. Do it seriously and try to get what you can out of it. Keep an open mind, and if in the end you decide to throw it away, you'll be doing it from strength.

You can't build what you don't love.

A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest. But you have to get back to it. You have to pick up the threads, revive your enthusiasm, recapture the mood.

I stand in the sacred human presence. As I do now, so should you stand some day. I pray to your presence that this be so. Let the future remain uncertain for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Thus the human condition faces its perpetual tabula rasa. We possess no more than this moment where we dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence we share and create.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him.

We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.