Quotes About Dedication

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

On Abraham Lincoln's 106th birthday, February 12, 1915, as fighting raged in Europe and Germany prepared to begin its U-boat counter-blockade, workers in Washington, D.C., laid a cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial. Fifty thousand people would attend the completed memorial's dedication on May 30, 1922.

Amid all the information available in our environment, which identity filter(s) do you use? Are you dedicated to popularity, to a role, to a cause, an ethic, a nation, an ethnicity? What identity gives meaning to your life?

Wherever you're working is where you take a stand. You don't have to go looking for new places, other issues, compelling causes.

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eight years ...

Practise make it perfect!

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Never underestimate the power of a small, dedicated group of people to change the world; indeed, that is the only thing that ever has.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

El deseo de ganar nace en la mayoría de nosotros. La voluntad de ganar es una cuestión de entrenamiento. La manera en que se gana es una cuestión de honor.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

You're the hero my young romantic heart settled on so long ago, you're an absolute tiger at times, you're devious and not above playing a few tricks. I love you whatever you are all the time. I've loved you for ten years without stopping. I'll love you for as long as I have breath in my body. I'm committed to one man and I'm ready to face real life with him.

From the time I arrived on the Cape, one of the things I chose explicitly was to put my writing first. Everything else in my life waxed and waned, but writing, I discovered during my restructuring, was my real core. Not any relationship. Not any love. Not any person. I had become more selfish and less accessible. I ceased to be the universal mommy of the tribe. I wanted to see people when I was done with my writing for the day, and not in the middle of my work time.

Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Elbow grease" is not a metaphor.

I know that I was often tired or in pain, but you just work through it.

You don't have a lot of time you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

That mysterious play which extends from love of a body to a love of an entire person has seemed to me noble enough to consecrate to it one part of my life.