Quotes About Dedication

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ( Get Out or Get in Line , 1928)

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there's so little competition.

He who thinks to win without doing their very best will find himself a loser in the race.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

To carry out any project to which you attach your own name you have to love yourself.

Cómo hago para explicarle a esta mujer, pensé, que soy esclava de las letras y los números desde los seis años, que mi humor depende del éxito de sus combinaciones, que esta alegría de haberlo hecho bien es rara, inestable, que dura una hora, una tarde, una noche?

you have to get your hands dirty if you want to change things.

She felt that the years she had dedicated to him had been in vain

If I'd known that to get a diploma and a degree Al you needed to have was free time, to be shut up in a place without worrying about earning a living, and, with discipline, learning by heart pages and page of some books, I would have done it before," he said once, in a teasing tone.

esto ocurre cuando en la cabeza tienes un clamor y sigues escribiendo como al dictado, incluso cuando estás haciendo la compra

I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Samo te smrt može sprije?iti da se posvetiš umjetnosti.

nhi?u ng??i may ch? ?? tâm m?t n?a t?i công vi?c, n?a kia ph?n cho gia ?ình. m?t vài ng??i hoàn toàn ?? tâm ??n công vi?c, nh?ng nh?ng ng??i nh? th? không ph?i là nh?ng ng??i làm vi?c t?t nh?t.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things--and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

There's no two ways about it, Tolkien fans are a funny bunch. I should know, for I was one of them. Been there, done that, read the book, gone mad. I first took on The Lord of the Rings at the age of eleven or twelve; to be precise, I began it at the age of eleven and finished at the age of twelve. It was, and remains, not a book that you happen to read, like any other, but a book that happens to you: a chunk bitten out of your life.

The teacher was still alive, so he sought her out and asked the old but still alert lady what magic formula she had used to pull these boys out of the slums into successful achievement. The teacher's eyes sparkled and her lips broke into a gentle smile. "It's really very simple," she said. "I loved those boys.