Quotes About Dedication

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James Patterson

He drove. That was what he did. What he'd always do.

Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot.

One thing about Faulkner I like, apart from the simplicity, on the whole, of his life, was that he wrote on the bedroom walls. That seems to me the true mark of a writer.

You must want it enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft—then you can add all the genius you like. – Phyllis Whitney

Are you a real writer? Then keep writing. And don't stop. Ever.

Someone with less talent who works hard often outperforms the gifted.

Today I resolve to take writing seriously, to keep going and never stop, to learn everything I can and make it as a writer.

The great dividend is not necessarily outscoring an opponent. The guaranteed dividend is the complete peace of mind gained in knowing you did everything within your power, physically, mentally, and emotionally, to bring forth your full potential. – John Wooden, legendary UCLA basketball coach

The main thing is to break the shackles of laziness and begin our labors; then, after that, to forget that we are laboring in the sheer joy of creation with which our labor inspires us.

Finish your novel, because you learn more that way than any other.

James Scott Bell

Janey had accepted the responsibilities of adulthood, and people like that didn't run off on a moment's notice.

K-12 teachers. Many work in classrooms for as many as thirty-five hours a week; on top of that they must assign, read, and comment on homework, prepare and grade exams, and develop next week's lesson plans.

A former marine, Paula Stark has been a firefighter for twenty-five years, and Summer Beach had been fortunate to get her. Although the local fire department served the community, they were also brought into the larger firefighting efforts in the region when needed.

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A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God. — MARTIN LUTHER

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.