Quotes About Diligence

Work is not your enemy but your friend. How you work, not what you do, determines the course of your life. You may work grudgingly or you may work gratefully; you may work as a human or you may work as a robot. There is no work so rude that you may not exalt in it; no work so demeaning that you cannot breathe soul into it; no work so dull that you may not enliven it.

And don't start thinking about that boy's shirt again, or one day you may find yourself laundering it.

Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.

The first part of success is Get-to-it-iveness; the second part of success is Stick-to-it-iveness.

Laziness begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.

Build slow and sure; 'tis for life, young man. In the elder days of art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere. — Longfellow.

Learn to labor and to wait. —Longfellow.

Industry conduces to longevity. It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the still pool, not the running brook, that stagnates.

Do little things now, says a Persian proverb; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. God will take care of the great things if we do not neglect the little ones.

Read or Starve. Show me a man who has made fifty thousand dollars, and I will show you in that man an equivalent of energy, attention to detail, trustworthiness, punctuality, professional knowledge, good address, common sense, and other marketable qualities.

Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.

Masters never are content with mere respect from their servants.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

The Master said, Study as though you could never catch up, [and if you did,] you would still be fearful of losing it.

The Master said, "I do not open the way for students who are not driven with eagerness; I do not supply a vocabulary for students who are not trying desperately to find the language for their ideas. If on showing students one corner they do not come back to me with the other three, I will not repeat myself.

7.25 The Master taught under four categories: culture (wen ), proper conduct (xing ), doing one's utmost (zhong ), and making good on one's word (xin ).

He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y

Whatever you are, be a good one. -Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife)

Yet even so, the margin between staying and leaving was so thin. Really, it could have gone either way. Sometimes I think that my years of diligent schoolwork and political idealism had given me the erroneous notion that if one choice, one plan, was hard and the other was easy, doing the hard thing was inherently better—worthier, more upstanding.

He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.