Quotes About Diligence

You forget the majesty of trade and the unparalleled virtues of the British Constitution which are all based on the sanity of the middle classes, combined with the diligence of the working-classes. You're

Humankind above all is lazy.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.'" (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

John Milton rose every day at 4 a.m. to write Paradise Lost. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire took Edward Gibbon 26 painstaking years to complete. Ernest Hemingway is said to have reviewed The Old Man and the Sea manuscript 80 times before submitting if for publication. It took Noah Webster 36 years to compile Webster's Dictionary.

A man does what must be done,' Karl said, trying to concentrate on his board-making. "But you never complain." 'What good would complaining do? A job takes so many hours of work, complaining will not shorten those hours.

do it because the victim deserves a cop who will work the case instead of one who is more intent on figuring out how some poor bastard who got shot four times in the back, and got dumped on the jurisdictional line, can be written off as a suicide.

Showing up early is one of the signs of a noble person....

conscientious

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

el esfuerzo debe ser proporcional a lo que se pretende.

but a mind of usefulness and ingenuity seemed to furnish him with constant employment within.

One had rather, on such occasions, do too much than too little.

We are told to despair of nothing we would attain, as unwearied diligence our point would gain

It is always good for young people to be put upon exerting themselves; and you know, my dear Catherine, you always were a sad little shatter-brained creature; but now you have been forced to have your wits about you...

Those who chose to be idle, certainly might.

Remember, never despise a task—any task. In doing any job, you are either creating something or bettering something.

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

I pride myself on leaving no stone unturned as far as being the most prepared that I can be.

I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.