Quotes About Dedication

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

I found that the last line in my Concordance and the last line in my six long volumes is Johnson's quotation of Goldsmith's fine saying; 'I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance: yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness.

It were to be wished that they who devote their lives to study would at once believe nothing too great for their attainment, and consider nothing as too little for their regard

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Potrai negarmi di accompagnarti, ma non puoi impedirmi di seguirti.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

That all any of us has to give is our best. if we do that. we succeed, no matter what the outcome.

It's hard for us to back down once we've taken a stand.

If she commits to something, it's forged in steel.

He would only ever be home with this woman.

When I realized that by "no one" this man was referring to approximately 750,000 children, I knew that I had found my passion and my cause.

I am indebted to the archivists

You can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.

she had conducted meticulous daily inspections since the time she could crawl.

I want to knit socks for the soldiers. It's not as easy as that, she said, looking at me strangely. It's difficult to turn a good heel. There are competitions over it.

Vola: So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet? Peter: They're the same thing.

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.