Quotes About Dedication

Para quien no sea un tonto de marca mayor, todas las ciencias son interesantes, pero cada sabio solo encuentra una cuyo cultivo le divierte. Descubrirla para consagrarse a ella es propiamente lo q se llama vocación

All it takes is all you got.

to become a saint one had to suffer much, seek out always the most perfect thing to do, and forget self.

No doubt, these three privileges sum up my true vocation: Carmelite, Spouse, Mother, and yet I feel within me other vocations. I feel the vocation of the WARRIOR, [35]THE PRIEST, THE APOSTLE, THE DOCTOR, THE MARTYR. Finally, I feel the need and the desire of carrying out the most heroic deeds for You, O Jesus. I feel within my soul the courage of the Crusader, the Papal Guard, and I would want to die on the field of battle in defense of the Church.

Let's do what we love and do a lot of it.

Alice had a rare gift: she was a "nose." Her sense of smell was so acute that she could distinguish and memorize the slightest odor. She spent her days alone, bent over the long wooden table in her flat, blending different essences to obtain combinations that might one day become a perfume. Every month she made the rounds of the London perfume shops, offering them her new creations.

Edward had lived 'a celibate life'; indeed, 'he preserved with holy chastity the dignity of his consecration, and lived his whole life dedicated in true innocence'.

My thanks to everyone who helped with the creation of this book.

The most visible demonstration of Alchfrith's enthusiasm for Wilfrid's cause

WILL is burning midnight oil- literally and metaphorically. His quill has already covered a dozen sheets. He is inspired.

At the rate these illuminations appear, it will no doubt take me a long time to gather the material for even one single book. For my inspired double-- this phantom builder of sentences who maliciously impedes my work to dictate his clever discoveries-- always comes at those (infrequent) hours of his choosing, drafts (at best) three little pages, then goes away.

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

Men who do their work intelligently and earnestly have an aversion to those who want to make literature out of what they do, to make it important.

You must believe in yourself and you must have a work ethic that equals none.

An hour was allowed at noon for dinner and more chores. We stayed in the field until dark, then supper, and still more chores, family worship, and to bed; making all together a hard, sweaty day of about 16 or 17 hours. Think of that, ye blessed 8-hour-day laborers!

He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, doth but half his work, Gal. vi. 9; Heb. xii. 1; 2 Cor. vii. 1.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

If there is a will there is an A.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

My core constituency will

He spent more time laying pipe than laying tile, if you catch my drift.

VIRGIL HAD BEEN WORKING the telephone from his truck

Take a while to find all that out, but I won't lose any

John Sandford