Quotes About Diligence

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away-- This is no time for thee to sleep-- Up, watch, and work, and pray!

Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.

A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom.

I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

The harder we work now, the easier it will be later.

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

The quiet people just do their work.

I will work when failures seek rest.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.