Quotes About Diligence

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

For the lazy, all work is difficult.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

Work could cure almost anything

I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning

People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.

A good solid bit of work lasts.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me.

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

I don't do well when I don't work.

It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new clean energy economy.