Quotes About Dedication

I am not religious, he said. But I will say ten Our Fathers and ten Hail Marys that I should catch this fish, and I promise to make a pilgrimage to the Virgen de Cobre if I catch him. That is a promise.

Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

You ask for the impossible. You ask for the ruddy impossible. So if you love this girl as much as you say you do, you had better lover her very hard and make up in intensity what the relation will lack in duration and continuity.

We all ought to make sacrifices for literature.

Everyone needs to do what they can do, by how truly they can do.

Ci sono cose che lei ama molto.Quelle di cui parlate a mensa.Ma non è amore quello,solo sfrenatezza,lussuria.Quando si ama si vuol far qualcosa per il proprio amore,sacrificarsi per esso,servire.

I have worked all my life. In all that remains of my life I must work. I have no complaints against work. To work is normal.

So if you love this girl as much as you say you do, you had better love her very hard and make up in intensity what the relation will lack in duration and in continuity

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

I'll say just what you wish and I'll do what you wish and then you will never want any other girls, will you?' She looked at me very happily. 'I'll do what you want and say what you want and then I'll be a great success, won't I?' 'Yes.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

Nu e mare lucru s? scrii. Nu faci decât s? stai jos în faÈ›a unei maÈ™ini de scris È™i s? sângerezi.

You're my religion, you're all I've got

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing … I rewrote the first part of A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times….The first draft of anything is shit.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

You need to act like your life depends on it, because it's never just your life involved. You need to never settle for less because the world desperately needs everything you can bring to the table.

for those of us who embrace the cause of Christ, the cost to participate in the mission of God is nothing less than everything we are and everything we have.

David had one posture: servanthood. Because he saw himself as a servant, he was a shepherd like no one had ever known.

The spirit of a servant is to sacrifice one's own life for the good of those they serve.

The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.

Nobody really knows which is happening when the teacher closes the door. At worst, mediocrity. At best, miracles.

Mr. Turner gets mad when I say, "I don't work for you, I work for the children." But it's true. Isn't it? I'll find out when I get fired, I guess.

Loving children is what teachers do for extra credit. It's not the main assignment.' 'Seems to me that the extra credit is more important than the main assignment,' observed Cordelia.