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Quotes About Dedication

There is something wonderfully sacred that happens when a girl chooses to realize that being set aside is actually God's call for her to be set apart.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.
~ M. Scott Peck
Laziness is love's opposite.
~ M. Scott Peck
Mental Health is dedication to reality at all costs.
~ M. Scott Peck
With total discipline we can solve all problems.
~ M. Scott Peck
If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.
~ M. Scott Peck
Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.
~ M. Scott Peck
A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged. The only way that we can be certain that our map of reality is valid is to expose it to the criticism and challenge of other map-makers.
~ M. Scott Peck
Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.
~ M. Scott Peck
A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
~ M. Scott Peck
Conversely, we must always consider our personal discomfort relatively unimportant and, indeed, even welcome it in the service of the search for truth. Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs.
~ M. Scott Peck
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. This
~ M. Scott Peck
The third tool of discipline or technique of dealing with the pain of problem-solving, which must continually be employed if our lives are to be healthy and our spirits are to grow, is dedication to the truth.
~ M. Scott Peck
Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems.
~ M. Scott Peck
So long as there is breath in me, I will serve life—serve life—serve life.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
There is no prayer greater than service.
~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Love isn't what you feel. It's what you do.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation
~ Malcolm Gladwell