Quotes About Dedication

She was, so to speak, an impersonal creature, because of her great heart; a woman who did not belong to herself: God seemed to have made her only to give her to others.

Theodore," [Theodore Sr] said, eschewing boyish nicknames, "you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. You must make your body. It is hard drudgery to make one's body, but I know you will do it.

For me a current lover has always been like whatever current book I'm writing - an obsessive project orienting all my thoughts.

The most important thing a writer can do is to keep writing, even when the muse is elusive and the words don't come.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

Leslie reads too much

No hay en toda la Tierra gente más aficionada al trabajo que los catalanes. Si supieran hacer algo, se harían los amos del mundo.

Stubborness is no more than a way of approaching things: it can be used for unworthy aims, but also worthy ones.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier. It helps, naturally, to have something to say.

In my case, saving the world was only a hobby.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Deep work on simple, basic ideas helps to build true virtuosity—not just in music but in everything.

successful people regularly focus on the core purpose of their profession or life. True experts continually deepen their mastery of the basics. Trumpeting

I, artist in words, dedicate, then, to you, artist whose ideas speak in marble, this well-loved work of my matured manhood. I love it not the less because it has been little understood and superficially judged by the common herd: it was not meant for them. I love it not the more because it has found enthusiastic favorers amongst the Few. My affection for my work is rooted in the solemn and pure delight which it gave me to conceive and to perform.

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and… you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work.

One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing.

You should produce the body.

Eat clean; train dirty.