Quotes About Dedication

One does not like to have one's little offerings of sentimental service turned into burlesque when one is in love in earnest.

on behalf of his special hobbies, he was ready to meet the world at large.

An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.

She continued writing up to 1856, when she was seventy-six years old,--and had at that time produced 114 volumes, of which the first was not written till she was fifty. Her career offers great encouragement to those who have not begun early in life, but are still ambitious to do something before they depart hence.

I have never felt that the work is a burden; it is a duty — more than a duty, something I have to do.

There were 10,000 stout fellows, as Daniel Defoe had written earlier in the century in The Behaviour of Servants, who would spend their last drop of blood against Popery but 'do not know whether it be a man or a horse'.

La verilitá, he thought, hardness of stone, heat of fires well banked. This man should never be a monk, nonetheless… Julian paused and chided himself. "Tuttavia e realmente dedicato." Dedication, a rare and wondrous quality, one he himself had lost during the stultifying years of Court life.

Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.

El filósofo no pretende aparecer si no tal cual es, busca la verdad con el solo fin de conocer sin mira alguna de interés personal; su vida es un sacrificio perpetuo en honor a la ciencia.

Arnold A. Dallimore

There may be something of the amateur in all great artists.

I have long since chosen him for my only good, my all; my pleasure, my happiness in this world as in the world to come... -Susanna Wesley

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.

From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

6 rules to succes: 1. Trust yourself; 2. Break some rules; 3. Don't be afraid to fail; 4. Ignore the naysayers; 5. Work like hell; 6. Give something back.

Jan had always been a good pianist—and now he was the finest in the world.

like everything that was worth doing, that would take time and practice.

Then I remembered that these men didn't seem any cleverer than I was; they were highly trained, that was all. If one worked hard enough, one could master anything.

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I have always had the greatest enthusiasm for the mission.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, he remarked with a smile. It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.