Quotes About Diligence

She did draw and paint and did both diligently, but possessed modest talent. She didn't mind. Her gift and passion lay in the observation and recognition of talent and beauty, whether it was found in the work of an Italian master or the profile of a viscount-to-be.

Nothing like hard work for driving away the shadows.

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.

Diligence in some compels idleness in others.

Being flippant was harder work than being earnest

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.