Quotes About Dedication

with grades, with scores. I always had to be the best in my class. It felt like the only way I could measure my success, my self-worth. If you knew the time I put into preparing for the MCAT you wouldn't believe it—it verged on OCD. It's that insane.

He worked as an agent for the same reason people worked as accountants and lawyers and corporate clerks. Because he was good at it. Because he liked the challenge. Because when the job was done right, he felt good about himself.

We are surrounded by a great cloud of people whose lives tell us what faith means. So let us run the race that is before us and never give up." —Hebrews 12:1a NCV

In for a penny, in for a pound

Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date.

how much of their own money teachers spent on their students.

memoir Teacher Man.

That's what love is. Love is faith.

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Let me, I like to.

When life is reduced to the survival of someone you love, everything else reveals itself as trivial.

She'd be doing it strictly out of love for the craft—not for the claps that came with.

True allegiance is only given willingly.

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you must be willing to go all the way for your art. If it is a question between choosing between your life and a work of art -- any work of art -- your decision is made for you.

My joy is in the craft, not the gain.

man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once," he added, "you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

como si dijera: «Ya casi hemos terminado», y ciertamente los chorritos de leche salieron más finos y lentos. Dio un apretón final

Writing is a job. Some days you don't feel like doing your job. But there is no teacher's block or dentist's block. I can't figure out why we have created this mysterious phrase .. only for writers .. which only means I don't feel like doing this right now.

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.

Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

He's not so short," said Ekaterin defensively. "He's just . . . concentrated." Her

The world is made by the people who show up for the job