Quotes About Dedication

In spite of having the personality of a horny jackrabbit with ADD, Salvatore was an excellent firefighter and paramedic.

Live what you love.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

I also pursue excellence, and Father told me that it can only ever be pursued, never caught—though

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying." She

Successful people are willing to do things that unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

God respects me when I work. He loves me when I sing. Tagore

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie.

As [Sonia] Sotomayor wrote in her autobiography, once she set herself on the path of a legal career, 'I saw no reason to stint on ambition.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

We should employ our passions in the service of life," Sir Richard Steele wrote, "not spend life in the service of our passions.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

I have come to believe that concentrated time, when it's needed - freely given and with a special purpose - can accomplish goals that even years of traditional treatment sometimes cannot. (185)

it wasn't for the love of a man that she took those chances, but for the love of a horse.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something -- writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a secret garden; if at four in the morning the right word comes to you, the perfect flower to plant in that particular spot -- you are playing your invisible instrument.

deserves your best every day of your life.

I told Lee people in the chocolate business can't take honeymoons until the last bunny's been sold.

I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is are you really serious about what you're doing?" This was said to a young woman who had already spent five years and over $10,000 getting to that point in her Ph.D. program.

I want you to be my old lady, babe. That's all I have to offer. I'm a Reaper, and this is my world. You wear my patch, you be my woman and I'll be your man. We take the good times together and fight through the bad times. No games. That's everything I've got and it's all yours if you'll take it.

Nothing says "commitment" like accessory to murder.

You're all mine, babe. Knew it the first time I saw you. Couldn't give you up if I tried.