Quotes About Dedication

He had been working with some of them for over fifteen years. It occurred to him that these were people who made up the content of a large proportion of his life. He was now the one who had been working longer than anybody else in the Ystad CID. Once upon a time he'd been the newcomer.

He dedicado mucho tiempo de mi vida a los crímenes y a las investigaciones de los mismos. Mi planteamiento es que el mal siempre es fruto de las circunstancias, nunca es congénito. He escrito sobre crímenes porque ilustran mejor que ninguna otra cosa las contradicciones que constituyen la base de la vida humana.

A lo largo de la historia, muy pocas personas han podido dedicarse sin más a algo distinto de sobrevivir. Cierto es que nunca han podido hacerlo tantas como hoy. Pero aun así la mitad de la humanidad, como mínimo, vive hoy sin opciones.

The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.

Are we really servants when we can become masters again once we think we have done our part or made our contribution? Are we really servants when we can say when, where, and how long we will give of our time and energy? Is service in a far country really an expression of servanthood when we keep enough money in the bank to fly home at any moment?

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get a good job, but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

Be true to your work, your word, and you're friend.

No importa que el comienzo sea pequeño; lo que se hace bien una vez, queda bien hecho para siempre.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done for ever.

Your religion is where your love is.

El divagador encara un problema, pierde interés y lo abandona. El hombre capaz de concentrarse persevera hasta que lo resuelve.

Excellence does not require perfection.

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

There is only one recipe - to care a great deal for the cookery.

I'm taking a trouble for you I never dreamed I should take for any human creature.

To live in the world of creation—to get into it and stay in it—to frequent it and haunt it—to think intently and fruitfully—to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation—this is the only thing—and I neglect it, far and away too much; from indolence, from vagueness, from inattention, and from a strange nervous fear of letting myself go. If I can vanquish that nervousness, the world is mine.

Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty: I engage myself to you forever. The beauty was in everything, and he could have separated nothing—couldn't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new light. And I pledge you—I call God to witness!—every spark of my faith; I give you every drop of my life.