Quotes About Diligence

If you want to stay alive, there is only one way: look fit for work.

wouldn't it be easier to just do a competent job than to spend all your time covering your ass?

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

when you think you have done enough, do a little more, because someone out there is working harder than you.

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

2. Not overcoming laziness and so forth

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

I was given the job of milking the cows, finally, and it got me up earlier than anybody. But it was kind of nice, pulling at those cows' tits.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.

But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.

Though there was nothing very airy about Miss Murdstone, she was a perfect Lark in point of getting up. She was up (and, as I believe to this hour, looking for that man) before anybody in the house was stirring. Peggotty gave it as her opinion that she even slept with one eye open; but I could not concur in this idea; for I tried it myself after hearing the suggestion thrown out, and found it couldn't be done.

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

had considered it a little while, she said to the tiny woman, And you keep watch over this every day? And she cast down her eyes,

Mr. Pickwick was no sluggard, and he sprang like an ardent warrior from his tent-bedstead.

The hardest work is to go idle.

Idleness is the mother of vice.