Quotes About Dedication

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.

Don't just plan to write—write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim

I'm her protection! I don't care if it's in this world or the next. Just show me how to get where she is, and I'll be there for her. ~Stark

I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim

You spend a decade thinking about the 2000 Olympics and they are nothing more than an elusive possibility, a faint light on the horizon's edge. Now they stand right in front of you. Press out, follow through, head down, stretch to the wall. Touch first or second. A missed taper would be damnation. A third place would be agony unlike any other.

To live is not enough; we must take part.

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

mantra that "I can write through anything" to

I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.

Firemen are my favorite color.' Jesus!

Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?

Be still my eternal groupie heart

He would then withdraw to his tudy to spend the rest of the morning on his great passion: chess

Those who don't play chess may tend to think of it as a tedious game, best suited to idle eccentrics and the elderly - people with vast patience and plenty of time to waste.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

Every profession that attracts people for "reasons of the heart" is a profession in which people and the work they do suffer from losing heart. Like teachers, these people are asking, "How can we take heart again so that we can give heart to others?"—which is why they undertook their work in the first place.

Every profession that attracts people for reasons of the heart is a profession in which people, and the work they do, suffer from losing heart.