Quotes About Dedication

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

She did love them all. They had found a purpose for her. They had given her something noble to do that would benefit the entire world.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

On the road of abnegation," M. Vianney was wont to say, "it is only the first step that is difficult; once we have started we go on almost mechanically.

De meeste vrienden die eens een keertje met me meelopen laten me al na een paar kilometer in de steek. Ze krijgen de slappe lach van het lopen. Ik niet. Er valt voor mij niets te lachen. Hardlopen is voor mij een heel ernstige zaak. In Duitse klassieke muziek wordt ook niet veel gelachen, dus waarom tijdens het hardlopen wel?

Determination, perseverance and hard work make the impossible possible.

There is no such thing as luck in life; it all boils down to pure hard work.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

we have to give are best or die

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

Do they listen?" He held up a finger. "Every year one does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only did twelve. I try to get one a year.

American ambulance crews] salvaged people we'd never see in Missing, because no one would have tied to bring them to a hospital. Judging someone to be beyond help never crossed the minds of police, firemen, or doctors here.

Everyone needed an obsession.

I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears -- the fluids in which one dissolved all traces of self. In working myself ragged, I felt integrated...

I could see that the almost mystical aura of this legendary surgeon -- the single-mindedness, the dedication, the skill -- was mere surface. The surgical persona was something he had crafter to protect himself. But what he had created was a prison. Anytime he strayed from the professional to the personal, he knew what to expect: pain.