Quotes About Diligence

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Ideas don't make money, effort does.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.

People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.