Quotes About Diligence

I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered.

Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.

Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.

Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required.

Consistency is what produces Results, not Complacency. WATCH OUT!

People may forget the quantity of your works but cannot forget the quality of your works.

Don't speak thoughtlessly.Don't worry unnecessarily.Don't work half-heartedly.Don't spend recklessly.Don't give begrudgingly.Don't act self-centeredly.Don't live short-sightedly.

A diligent ant is more useful than a lazy cow.

A little drop each day eventually fills the sea.

I think the most important is to remain as stable and consistent as possible in terms of emotions, because when you're working, if you work well, you're always rewarded at some point.

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

That man is best Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then-do not worry.

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.