Quotes About Dedication

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

If there's something I can't do but want to, I won't relax until I'm able to do it.

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

I think it's an amazing achievement to find even one specific thing that you're interested in.

There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.

Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I listen to music while I'm writing.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.

There's nothing worth getting in this world that you can get easily. ...But, when you put in that much time and effort, if you do achieve that difficult thing it becomes the cream of your life.

Pa, kakvo to iskustvo može da ima pisac bez strasti? To ti je kao kuvar bez apetita.

I've never liked giving up on a book once I've started it. I always hold out hope that there will be some riveting development toward the end, though the chances of that are pretty slim.

The lesson I learned from this is that it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

Executives trying to recognize high levels of achievement motivation in their people can look for one last piece of evidence: commitment to the organization. When people love their jobs for the work itself, they often feel committed to the organizations that make that work possible. Committed employees are likely to stay with an organization even when they are pursued by headhunters waving money.

People become successful the minute they decide to.

Well, I'm here to tell you: I've seen women passionately devoted to men who couldn't pile bricks, and whole families of slack-jawed nose pickers held together by "love," not to mention all those people who curl up at night with dogs that have gunk running out of their eyes, dogs who earlier peed where they were about to walk and spent ten minutes licking their own wormy butts.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

So if fitness is about persistence, then the apropos question is, The persistence of what?

You don't have to sing in a choir to see that a group of committed people who care about something that makes life a little brighter, and work hard at it, can accomplish more together than alone, but it helps.