Quotes About Dedication

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

Woman work a great many miracles.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

You've got me, anyhow. I'm not good for much, I know, but I'll stand by you, Jo, all the days of my life. Upon my word I will! and Laurie meant what he said.

When the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world, full of friends almost as real and dear to her as any in the flesh.

you have found your style at last. You wrote with no thoughts of fame and money, and put your heart into it

he felt he could willingly give his life for them.

You don't give her up. You only go halves.

I am glad a task to me is given, To labor at day by day, For it brings me health and strength and hope, And I cheerfully learn to say, "Head, you may think, Heart, you may feel, But, Hand, you shall work alway!

Stay where you are, Jo. I'm errand boy for this establishment.

Quien desea de corazón ser mejor, tiene medio camino hecho

she won't wish us to give up everything.

talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

de qualquer modo, você tem a mim. não sirvo para muita coisa, eu sei, mas ficarei a seu lado, jo, todos os dias de minha vida. dou minha palavra que ficarei.

he came for her sake alone.

Why, you know I don't mind hard jobs much, and there must always be one scrub in a family. Amy is splendid in fine works and I'm not, but I feel in my element when all the carpets are to be taken up, or half the family fall sick at once. Amy is distinguishing herself abroad, but if anything is amiss at home, I'm your man.

Jo leaned down to kiss the tranquil face, and with that silent kiss, she dedicated herself soul and body to Beth.

I think you will find someone and love them and you will live and die for them because that is your way and you will.

I think you will find someone and love them and you will live and die for them because that is your way and you will. And I'll watch…

When we begin a new project, as embryonic or unsatisfactory as our early work may seem, we're readying ourselves for the deeper work that comes later. We learn about ourselves as writers. We establish our work's foundation. We permit ourselves to play and explore. We commit—or recommit—to working steadily and purposefully.

Woolf penned roughly 535 words and crossed out 73 of them, netting her 462 words for her day's work. Let's say she worked for three hours. That's about 178 words an hour including the words she deleted—and Woolf was writing at the height of her creative powers.

Yet Junius never saw how much his own unbending style and unrealistically high standards had contributed to Pierpont's slavish dedication to work.

once John D. Rockefeller, Sr., set his mind to something, he brought awesome powers of concentration to bear.