Quotes About Dedication

Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

So why don't you go home? Dink smiled crookedly. Because I can't give up the game. He tugged at the fabric of his flash suit, which lay on the bunk beside him. Because I love this.

I can't do a weekly column," Valentine said. "I don't even have a monthly period yet.

Power comes only by persuasion; by love and service. It comes from trying and learning.

Through their training, they had all learned that winning depended on being able to forget everything but what you were doing at that moment. You could hold all your ships in your mind at once — but only if any ship that no longer matters could be blocked out completely. Thinking about dead men, about torn bodies having the air sucked out of their lungs by the cold vacuum of space, who could still play the game knowing that this was what it really meant?

They offered something that was genuinely good, and people's lives were better because they offered it. It was not a noble cause that would get written up in the histories. But it was not nothing, either. A person could do worse than spend some large percentage of his life in a cause like that. Bean

Then you're hired, Lieutenant. I can abide a life outside the IF, but I can't abide life without my wife's stir-fry.

Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.

but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing

Yes," said Ender. "He's one of your flock, isn't he? So leave the ninety-nine, shepherd, and come with us to save the one that's lost.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

LEARN AS THOUGH YOU WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO MASTER IT

If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.

To do something for someone or something you loved- England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history- wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

To do something for someone or something you loved—England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history—wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

face Lady Schrapnell. And I promised I'd help

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning