Quotes About Dedication

I'd rather spend my life alone than with someone who isn't you.

Adrian kept sending me e-mails, asking me to rescue him (while also offering unsolicited dating advice). Ms. Terwilliger continued her passive aggressive attempts to teach me magic. Eddie continued in his fierce dedication to Jill. And Angeline continued her not-so-subtle advances on Eddie.

I apparently didn't believe in sleep, either, because I didn't get much of it that night.

A single Sherman tank took three hundred man-hours to waterproof, occupying the five-man crew for a week.

Gunners sloshed cans of water to cool their glowing barrels while others struggled from the rear with ninety-six-pound rounds on their shoulders.

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Eisenhower wrote his own son at West Point: "I have observed very frequently that it is not the man who is so brilliant [who] delivers in time of stress and strain, but rather the man who can keep on going indefinitely, doing a good straightforward job.

A soldier doesn't fight to save suffering humanity or any other nonsense. He fights to prove that his unit is the best in the Army and that he has as much guts as anybody else in the unit.

If you can't strive for perfection...just strive.

The woman also tried to save me at lunchtime. We ate salads and fruit and whole-wheat everything, and I was not happy, but I did it for love. I lost a pound.

Talk of making a sacrifice is all fine and well until it is your time to be brought to the altar as an offering.

Angel, as was Phinehas, a man whose thoughts

Many are called to do great things, but they do not fulfill those callings because they do not give themselves to the little things.

If you talked about writing books, you'd never do it.

I have a treasured set of matched grain crosscut horns made for me by master American carver Jim Cooke, cut yin-yang from the same block of briar he waited five years to find.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

if you get distracted from doing your job, you can't perform. And remember this—there is very little sympathy out there for people who cannot perform.

It's easy to focus on self. That is the natural inclination of people. But it is more productive to focus on the team. And it is even more important to focus on the work you must do to help the team.

The comic book nerds] haggle over pedantic nonsense in shrill voices.

Like Jesus, we must make the decision that we will never alter, amend, compromise, dilute, or mitigate truth to make our listeners more comfortable or to gain a following.

We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

I never have been involved in politics.

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.