Quotes About Dedication

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn't know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career.

I'll be that fool for you, I'm sure

the good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they're lying. The only good part is having run.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

No way through but through...Do the next thing, Gabriella, and then the next, and then the next.

The most successful people I know do their best work under any conditions, for anyone.

Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.

You swim and you keep swimming without a thought in your head because that's what you have to do. And you do the push-ups and you jog and you do all the things beyond exhaustion because you have to. Then one day you'll discover you're in the zone and you don't feel your legs anymore, you don't feel your arms anymore. You exist just as motion. That's the zone. Then you can do anything.

You should do something because you love it, not just because you're good at it.

Find something you'd want to keep doing forever," she said, "even if you stink at it. And then if you're lucky, with lots of practice, then one day you won't stink so much.

Find something you want to keep doing forever even if you stink at it. And then if you're lucky with lost of practice, then one day you won't stink so much.

I learned my work ethic from the best. God and family first, then work hard at whatever I do, because someone once told me that the only difference between try and triumph is a little umph." Her

love was more than just mere emotions. Love was a decision.

Well Just let me know cause its my mission in life to be your bitch - Montoya

And by the way"—she looks up suddenly—"I've read every single Agatha Christie novel ever published. Twice. So I might even be quite useful.

He left immediately, of course. He never wasted a beat when it came to Scarlett. She was his lifeforce, his meaning. He was nothing before Scarlett and he would return to nothing after her. When she needed him, he came to life, like a marionette taken out of a box.

Yes," says Dido, her gaze resolutely on her computer screen. "OK. And by the way"—she looks up suddenly—"I've read every single Agatha Christie novel ever published. Twice. So I might even be quite useful.

A slow smile had curved St. Vincent's lips. 'Wives are a different case altogether. They require a great deal of effort but the rewards are substantial. I highly recommend wives. Especially one's own.

I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline

I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose." ~ Haven Travis

There isn't going to be a 'next lover,'" Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. "I'm the only man she's going to have.