Quotes About Dedication

Stop abandoning your children. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race halfway through. Finishing is a good start. Stop looking for the escape hatch; pretend your work in progress just doesn't have one. 23.

At heart, what we give to the world is our service, and what we give to ourselves is our purpose.

Shut up and write.

Be vigilant with the truth, Arav. Our truth, our love, it's what we have.

You're not tasked with desalinating an ocean or training a komodo dragon to cure ebola. I'm saying, sludge yourself into the ass receptacle and peck keyboard keys like a hungry chicken until it makes words.

Because I know what it's like to pour your heart and soul into a book, day after day after day, when it comes to the work of other authors, I either give them five stars -- or say nothing! I simply can't bring myself to do anything else.

the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

you perfect results. What I can promise you is that you won't get it right if you don't commit to keep trying.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.   When

In sacrificing for something worthwhile, you deeply strengthen your commitment to it.

People who truly love what they do and who think their work is meaningful have a distinct advantage when they arrive at work every day. They throw their best effort into their jobs, and it makes them very good at what they do. This

The only way a strategy can get implemented is if we dedicate resources to it.

A man who is dedicated to helping improve the lives of other people A kind, honest, forgiving, and selfless husband, father, and friend A man who just doesn't just believe in God, but who believes God

likeness, a commitment, and a metric—is the most reliable way I know of to define for yourself what your purpose is, and to live it in your life every day.

This principle—that sacrifice deepens our commitment—doesn't just work in marriages. It applies to members of our family and close friends, as well as organizations and even cultures and nations.

Given that sacrifice deepens our commitment, it's important to ensure that what we sacrifice for is worthy of that commitment, as the church was for me and Annie. Perhaps nothing deserves sacrifice more than family—and not just that others should sacrifice for you, but that you should sacrifice for your family

There's an old saying: find a job that you love and you'll never work a day in your life. People who truly love what they do and who think their work is meaningful have a distinct advantage when they arrive at work every day. They throw their best effort into their jobs, and it makes them very good at what they do.

Clifford D. Simak did not dedicate his books very often, but he dedicated this one—to his dog. He loved dogs, and he made them prominent features of a number of his stories—and in this case he made it clear that the dog in question, Scootie, was the model for Nathaniel, who can be found in "Census," the third episode in this book, and who became legend to succeeding generations of dogs.

You get what you work for not what you wish for

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

First, my love and thanks to Ben Smith, my Hollywood agent, who has been a true visionary in a job that is often maligned (in this book, for instance)

By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work even if they don't feel like it. Anybody can get maudlin and decide to write poetry at 11 at night; the question is, can you do it at 8:30 on a Monday morning..?

Try to finish everything. You'll always find your enthusiasm for a project waning as it goes on, and you'll be tempted by a new idea, but learn to ignore the latter and continue with the former. If you start abandoning work, you set a bad precedent, and establish a pattern for the years to come. And be nice to booksellers: never let them pay for a round.

I know you're the only pistol champion we have, but I'd rather they no see enough of you to hit. You're also the only wife I have... You're so sweet.' ...at the moment.