Quotes About Dedication

if you really want it, you'll keep at it.

A gente bota dez dedos pra fazer comida, dois braços pra varrer a casa, um bocadinho de amizade pra fulano, três bocadinhos de amizade pra sicrano que é mais simpático, um olhar pra vista bonita do lado com o espigão de Nossa Senhora do Ó numa pasmaceira lá longe, e de sopetão, zás! bota tudo no amor que nem no campista pra ver se pega uma cartada boa. Assim é que fazemos…

A relationship is like a pet; you have to work and work, just to keep it healthy.

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

Louisa May Alcott] made no alterations and no copies, for the material upon which she lavished the least time seemed the most successful.

If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

Believing takes practice.

I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

There was Glenn Gould hunched over the piano, wearing a dark suit, hearing patterns far beyond the range of what most of us are given to perceive,

A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.

A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy you a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred.

Because you're the reason. Swear it.

It was so simple. If you want it, I will do it. If it would make you happy, I will go with you.

I can please you, I swear it. You will find none more loyal than me. I will do anything." I do think he loved me a little. For before I could say the thousand humiliating things in my heart, all the proofs of passion I had hoarded, the crawling devotions I would do, I felt his power come around me. And with that same flick he had used upon the cushions, he sent me back to my rooms.

I believed that she would rather set the world on fire than lose.

The religious sense of life kicks in when I am rigorously loyal, "religiously" faithful (religio on still another etymology, meaning "scrupulous" or "in a disciplined way") to the service of something other than myself, more important than myself, to which I swear an oath, which has me more than I have it.

If the law can't protect us, then I'm dedicated to a myth, and I better wake up.

She trudged along, dutiful as a naughty child.

People are very good at things they are very interested in.

Ci sono persone che sognano il successo e altre che restano sveglie per ottenerlo.

that's exactly what we do to find more of God—we practice belief. We exercise it.

You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.

I love her deeply and have done everything for her. I've no feeling of letting her down because I've put her foremost in everything.

Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you - but rather - what you can do for your Joe Montaperto.