Quotes About Diligence

Work alone is noble.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

What are you doing in God's fair Earth and Task-garden; where whosoever is not working is begging or stealing? Wo, wo to themselves and to all, if they can only answer: Collecting tithes, Preserving game!

The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

I think it's the nervousness and the worry that it won't last forever that keeps us working so hard.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

I never stop working.

The thing we all know is that you can't take a day off... in anything. If you do, the next thing you know, it can all be taken away from you just like that.

I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.

Indians are very intelligent - of that, there is no doubt - but we are not necessarily hard working.

if you wish to please me, and to bring success and honour to yourself, do right and study, because others will help you if you help yourself.

never in peaceful times stand idle..

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

He walked outside onto the terrace and sat. Obviously settled and comfortable, he poured coffee. There were ways and ways to gain trust, he thought. With a bird with a broken wing, it took patience, care, and a gentle touch. With a high-strung horse that had been whipped, it took diligence and the risk of being kicked. With a woman, it took a certain amount of charm. He was willing to combine all three.

Power should come from work, time, effort. Care," he added. "As the most important things do.

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.

overly tedious.

Hard work was the fundamental thing. For hard work did not allow time for marches.