Quotes About Diligence

With fingers weary and worn,With eyelids heavy and red,A woman sat in unwomanly ragsPlying her needle and thread—Stitch! stitch! stitch!In poverty, hunger, and dirt.

The original teachings of the Buddha are more a philosophy than a religion, for they admit no supreme god, nor do they propose any salvation other than that attainable through human diligence. The aim is temporal happiness, to be realized through asceticism—which was taught as a practical means of turning one's back on the world and its incumbent pain.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Christians must not be slothful. Idleness is the devil's bath; a slothful person becomes a prey to every temptation. Grace, while it cures the heart, does not make the hand lame. He who is called of God, as he works for heaven, so he works in his trade." - Thomas Watson

Love is an industrious affection; it sets the head studying for God, hands working, feet running in the ways of his commandments.

Another sign of our effectual calling is diligence in our ordinary calling. Some boast of their high calling, but they lie idly at anchor. Religion does not seal warrants to idleness. Christians must not be slothful. Idleness is the devil's bath; a slothful person becomes a prey to every temptation. Grace, while it cures the heart, does not make the hand lame. He who is called of God, as he works for heaven, so he works in his trade.

Piety does not exclude industry.

Christians must not be slothful. Idleness is the devil's bath; a slothful person becomes a prey to every temptation. Grace, while it cures the heart, does not make the hand lame. He who is called of God, as he works for heaven, so he works in his trade.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I was never a good student. But I wrote acting notes every day and prepared for my next shoots diligently.

I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.

If you work really hard at something for a really, really long time, you do it well. Eventually, somebody will notice.

If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.

I work like a dog, really. I go over scripts like a mad man and just want to make sure I have my house built, so that I can just kind of go nuts inside of it.

I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

He sat up quickly, pulled the book out from under him, put on a green eyeshade, and waited with his pen poised in the air.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.