Quotes About Dedication

When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

Could mere loving be a life's work? Could it be a career like marriage or nursing the sick or going on the stage? Could it be adventure?

He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.

She did not suppose for a moment that anything worth having, and she now knew faith to be supremely worth having, was ever easy to have.

sudden throb of triumph in Marianne's soul; for this, in spite of all, had been a man who had left the world the richer for his passing through it, and even if immortality were an empty dream, that were sufficient justification for the fact of life. He had lived for the poor and the outcast, he had served them up to the moment of his death, and she in whatever ways she could find would serve them too.

He felt him transfixed, captured, nailed by his vow to the hard wood of the impossible thing he had to do.

The shabby frock coat that Dr. Ozanne wore for work in the surgery was none too clean either, and there was a slight tremor about his hands, as he tried to bring a little order into the litter on his desk, that Marianne had not noticed before. . . . She had been right. His practice was not going to improve. He would never be a successful doctor. Yet the moment he turned his attention to the boy, she had to admit that there are two ways of being a successful doctor.

Then for some reason I've not done it properly one day, and that's no good at all, because if you're going to do something that's for your own benefit, you've got to do it properly or there's no point.

Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?

Du musst einfach dranbleiben,' sagte er. 'Es sollte kein Zeitvertreib sein und keine Pflicht und nichts Ungewöhnliches. Es sollte das Normalste auf der Welt für dich sein.

Ha! Also für den Fall, dass du es nicht weißt - einer der Unterschiede zwischen einem Amateur und jemandem, der professionell arbeitet, ist, dass Amateure nur arbeiten, wenn ihnen danach ist, während jemand Professionelles sich unabhängig von seiner Laune dransetzt.

Besides, I have determined that

Librarians lose reason when it comes to the regulars, the good people, the readers.

and even if he knew the answer, he would keep on doing this. because, the thing was, he loved her. he couldn't walk away if he wanted to.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it.

I took myself—secretly, secretly—very seriously! I knew I was a writer. I didn't know how hard it would be. But no one knows that; and that does not matter.)

So—you're a writer. You're an artist.

Work gets done if you simply do it.

stopped coming home for lunch. He just stayed in his office

He profits most who serves best.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living then, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redefined tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.

Augustine's formula, with its conscious echoes of Plato's Republic, remains the basis of the Western idea of a church to this day: Catholic or Protestant, Methodist or Mormon. This is the idea of the church as a community, whose members share the same values and beliefs and who are bound together in their dedication to love God as they love one another; and to serve His commands rather than those of some bureaucrat or politician.