Quotes About Dedication

You belong to me, Lenora ... I'm not letting you go.

You belong to me," he says, his deep voice vibrating with solemnity as well as demand. "You're mine now, Melanie." … His gaze burns into mine. "Let me hear you say it." "I am," I whisper, barely staving off the emotion that swells inside me. "There's nowhere else I'd rather be, and with no one else, Jared. I'm yours.

You're mine." I say it fiercely, needing her to understand. "I love you, Melanie Laurent. For the rest of my life, I'm going to love you.

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

For the next eight and a half months, you're going to be mine. Every. Night.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody–somewhere–was practicing more than me.

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

when you think you have done enough, do a little more, because someone out there is working harder than you.

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I have chosen this thing to do, away from my family, the doors closed, characters who form in my head and move to the paper, black symbols on a white sheet, no more than that.

If you want to write, you've got to shut yourself up in a room and write.

Robert Greenleaf: If caring is needed to protect an institution, what are the requirements necessary to make it work? First, the sense of purpose and objective. Second, the talent to manage the process for reaching new objectives. Finally, and let me surprise you by emphasizing this third need, we need people who care about the institution. A deep sense of caring for the institution is required for its success.

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success.

Professional writers don't have muses; they have mortgages.

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

twould appear that if Fred Lemish spent half as much time writing as he did hoping Dinky Adams would say "I love you," he'd have a ten-foot shelf. And if Dinky Adams spent half as much time legitimately planting and fertilizing as he did scattering his seeds to the winds, he'd be New York's leading gardener. Though, of course, as we shall continue to see, he already is.

We overtrained.