Quotes About Diligence

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

No man e'er was glorious, who was not laborious.

It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun.

Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing is more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand.

I hereby solemnly and sincerely declare before God that I will faithfully discharge the duties of a member of An Garda Síochána with fairness, integrity, regard for human rights, diligence and impartiality, upholding the constitution and the law and according equal respect to all people

Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Le travail, c'est le meilleur des médicaments.

It never occurred to her that if the drainpipes of a house are clogged, the rain may collect in pools on the roof; and she suspected no danger until suddenly she discovered a crack in the wall.

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Nothing is perfect for long. Therefore you have to be perfect for a little while.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something.

constant vigilance

Every day from the crack of dawn, he said- and i completed the rest, until we can't keep our eyes open one second longer

And why was the blind guy on watch, you might ask? Because a cockroach couldn't come within fifty feet of us without his knowing it. Iggy

Remember, Michael Sean, she'd always say, it's never the job you do but how hard you do it.

responding patrols.

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.