Quotes About Dedication

With a book he was regardless of time.

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

Give him a book, and he will read all day long.

By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...

her affection would be his forever.

She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting.

no hay que desesperar de lograr aquello que deseamos, pues la asiduidad, si es constante, consigue el fin que se propone...

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Te aseguro que no soy de las que quieren a medias. Mis sentimientos siempre son profundos y arraigados...

One had rather, on such occasions, do too much than too little.

she cannot expect to excel if she does not practice a good deal.

We are told to despair of nothing we would attain, as unwearied diligence our point would gain

I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature

The navy, I think, who have done so much for us, have at least an equal claim with any other set of men, for all the comforts and all the privileges which any home can give. Sailors work hard enough for their comforts, we must all allow.

and even you yourself, who do not altogether seem particularly friendly to very severe, very intense application, may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband as it had once been to Willoughby.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature

There is one thing (...) a man can always do, if he chooses, and that is, his duty: not by maneuvering and finessing, but by vigor and resolution.

Marianne could never love by halves.

I have no notion of loving people by halves.

I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing will not comprise what I have to tell you.