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Quotes About Dedication

You should write and read all day...
~ Mary Mills Mackay
One ought to write only when one leaves a piece of one's flesh in the inkpot each time one dips one's pen.
~ Leo Tolstoy
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.
~ David Nicholls, One Day, 2009
My dear friend and colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American hero. She spent her life fighting for the equality of all people, and she was a pathbreaking champion of women's rights. She served our Court and country with consummate dedication, tirelessness, and passion for justice. She has left a legacy few could rival.
~ Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 2020
I need hardly remind you... that graduation is not the end of your study. It is, as you know, only the beginning of it. You have learned how to study, now it is most important that you continue in this most valuable work...
~ John Fulton, 1910
...if you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.
~ Marian Anderson
Amateurs work until they get it right. Professionals work until they can't get it wrong.
~ Author Unknown
When developing and designing products that invite people to use them, just do it right from the start and put your heart into it. It's harder and it takes longer, but everyone wins in the end.
~ Michael D. Harris
All mothers are working mothers.
~ Author Unknown
Life is never so busy that there is no time to serve.
~ Author Unknown
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity.
~ Author Unknown
Never stop pedaling to power your dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
Well, certainly, it seems that an Officer of Volunteers has many responsibilities... all work and no pay...
~ Punch, 1890
I want to thank and pay tribute to all of our volunteers — those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.
~ Robert Orben
Volunteers wear work-boots but leave a trail of angel footprints.
~ Terri Guillemets
Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer.
~ Author Unknown
Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.
~ Elizabeth Andrew
Volunteers are love in motion!
~ Author Unknown
Those humble, quiet, behind-the-scenes people are the reason anything ever gets done.
~ Terri Guillemets
Volunteers do it for free.
~ Author Unknown
Angels don't get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers.
~ Terri Guillemets
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
~ Woody Allen
Always give 100% — unless you're donating blood.
~ Internet meme
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.
~ Author Unknown