Quotes About Dedication

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives. TITUS 3:14

In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. LUKE 14:33

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

Only in this hoarded span will love persevere.

I am not seeing anyone or writing anyone—I'm on my 8th draft of this play and how many more—God knows.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

There'll be no keeping Chickie from dancing, or dancing from Chickie. It will feed her and gnaw away at her, and in the end it will pull her away. For once a child has an obsession, she no longer has need of a mother

If one has the will and persistance, one CAN do things.

I ask no other epitaph on my tomb but "'SHE TRIED TO FOLLOW TRUTH.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Success does not lie in sticking to things. It lies in picking the right thing to stick to and quitting the rest.

If we find the Achilles' heel," Teller told me, "thank God we found the Achilles' heel after $2 million instead of after $20 million.

Quitting means failing, capitulating, losing. Quitting shows a lack of character. Quitters are losers (except, of course, when it involves giving up something obviously bad like smoking, alcohol, drugs, or an abusive relationship).

Or we don't leave a career we spent years training for, because that would mean our training was for nothing. Or we keep watching a bad movie because of the time we've already spent watching it.

As you already know, grit is good for getting you to stick to hard things that are worthwhile, but grit also gets you to stick to hard things that are no longer worthwhile.

All these famous people, and countless others, have united behind variations of the expression "Quitters never win, and winners never quit.