Quotes About Diligence

A person could skim all the books in a city library and still be more illiterate than a person who studies ten pages of a single good book letter by letter --- in other words, with real accuracy.

Until then he'd worked hard, but he got in his share of malingering like everybody else.

Quentin suppose her unfussy diligence reminded him unpleasantly of the future he was ignoring.

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out.

The average person - if you had a situation that hit your family and you needed to do something, you would not just go and take a vacation, or you would not do something that's not related to the task at hand. But in Washington, that just seems to be par for the course.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Don't get bored with little things - little completions here and there. They are all valuable, because I know that's a trap to fall into. You start feeling pretty good, and you think 'Oh, I want to try and throw this, or throw that.' And you've got to reel yourself in and hone in on the details.

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

It was much easier to clean feet than to clean shoes.

All those words,' she whispered, 'so diligently placed together, and so pointlessly torn apart.

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

To do something large and to do it well demands such observances, personal and peculiar, laughable as they often are, because they stave off that dinginess of soul that says that everything is small and grubby and nothing is really worth the effort.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.