Quotes About Dedication

Nice try?" Butters said. "Mister, where I come from, there is no try.

Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. Do you know what I had to go through to find a baby-sitter, get all the way out here, get the money together and then get the sword back for you?

Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.

When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.

The reward for work well-done is more work.

Got it with you?" I asked Butters. "Are you kidding?" he said, grinning. "I may never put it down again." "So show her," I said. "You think that's . . . you know. Okay? To show it off like that?" "You aren't showing off," I said. "You're confirming her faith." Butters screwed up his face and then said, "Yeah. I guess that's okay, then.

We are as the dead, Sha said. Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are, we lose our lives - our names, our family, our homes, and our honour. All that remains is our lord.

You now have more work. Cease your whining, desist from your dalliances, and do your duty.

What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

The reward for work well-done is more work. "Ain't that the truth," I muttered. I stuffed the book back in my pocket and hit the road again.

working for

Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.

greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.

This can only be accomplished by people who live, breathe, eat and sleep what they are doing.... [I am] associated with a large group of knowledgeable, dedicated [people] who eat, breathe, and sleep the world of aeronautics.... Man's objective should be opportunity for greater accomplishment and greater service. The greatest pleasure life has to offer is the satisfaction that flows from... participating in a difficult and constructive undertaking.50

To be a writer you have to write, not sit around reading books about how to do it.

Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God.

If you make anything a higher priority than God, you are worshiping it and not God.

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.

Bettering the lives of others is the role of a person with a servant's heart.

Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.

Faithfulness in little things will prepare you for greater tasks from God.

Just start at page one and write like a son of a bitch." —Jim Harrison