Quotes About Dedication

You know that I am always with him to the full extent of the time allowed, and that I should be with him all day long, if I could. And when I come away from him, you know that my thoughts are with him.

So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.

My poor girl, you have not been very well taught how to make a home for your husband, but unless you mean with all your heart to strive to do it, you had better murder him than marry him — if you really love him.

You didn't take your wife p. 59for fast and for loose; but for better for worse.

No matter our personal dedication to goodness and justice, we are all, in greater or lesser measure, complicit in the injustices of the society which we tolerate. Even if we tolerate it for the best of reasons, it is a constant struggle not to be consumed by the self-contempt that such accommodation threatens to breed in any person of conscience.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Take your pleasure seriously.

The one who bows into service is an artist. To see work as sacred is to bow into service to it, and thus become its instrument. More specifically and somewhat paradoxically, we become the instrument of that which we create.

Make sure that what you are living for is what you are willing to die for.

For too many believers the Christian life boils down to simply doing the best they can.

Mi intención es seguir aprendiendo y mejorando cada año por el resto de mi vida. Dios no lo llevará a convertirse en algo sin ayudarle a ser lo mejor que posiblemente pueda ser en ese campo. No le dará un talento para luego fallar en darle la oportunidad de descubrirlo, usarlo, desarrollarlo, practicarlo y perfeccionarlo.

...if a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him... If you recognize in yourself some such decisive taste, there is no room for hesitation: follow your bent.... soon your every thought will be engrossed in that beloved occupation.

No man e'er was glorious, who was not laborious.

Hard work is rewarding beyond gold. Sweating is living.

I cannot count my day complete 'Til needle, thread and fabric meet.

Nurses are the heart of healthcare.

Nurses can take the pressure.

Nurses are IV leaguers.

Nurses are patient people.

Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.

Nurses don't wait until October to celebrate Make a Difference Day — they make a difference every day!

We'd all be worse without a nurse.

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise...

There is no short cut. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.