Quotes About Diligence

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.

diligent focus on the task at hand.

The grass on the other side of the hill may well be greener, but you should always check that there isn't something with teeth and claws crouching in it.

The masters, the ones who succeed tremendously and set the standard for others, are those who master the details.

Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.

In Maie get a weede hooke, a crotch and a glove, And weed out such weedes as the corne doth not love. Slack never thy weeding, for dearth nor for cheape, The corne shall reward it er ever ye reape. [Thomas Tusser, 'Five hundred points of husbandry: directing what corn, grass, is proper to be sown: what trees to be planted: how land is to be improved: with with whatever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year' (1557).]

When something catches your attention just keep your attention on it, stick with it 'til the end, and somewhere along the line there'll be weirdness.

Life', Alice resolutely told her mother in 1866, 'is meant for work, and not for pleasure.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Will reading the Book of Mormon now and then ensure faith in the Lord Jesus Christ? You wouldn't count on it if you read Nephi carefully. He said the Holy Ghost is "the gift of God unto all those who diligently seek him." Diligently surely means regularly. And it surely means pondering and praying. And the praying will surely include a fervent pleading to know the truth. Anything less would hardly be diligent. And anything less will not be enough for you and for me.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

And when a man is really at work, he needs no title. His work honours him.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

Abbiamo bisogno di persone brave, non solo di brave persone.

For the day's work is a great thing—a very great thing! It is at the very foundation of the world; it is the basis of our self-respect.

If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

Learn to labour and to wait.

Thare are people who dont do ennything but watch their simptoms. I have seen dogs ackt just az sensible, i hav seen a rat terrier watch the simptoms ov a knot hole, in a board fence, all day, for sum rat tew cum out, but no rat didn't cum out.

he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.

Work on. " Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.