Quotes About Diligence

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work

one by Alasdair Gray – relayed by my colleague, author Ken McLeod[143] – that sums everything so-concisely and optimistically, but with a slightly science-fictional flair: "Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.

We created a corporate handbook that each business unit had to follow when performing due diligence on a potential acquisition.

Little jobs require little men, and it's the little jobs that keep a kingdom running.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

Insects all business all the time.

boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

That concentrating intently on anything is very hard work.

Dalam pesona persahabatan, orang yang biasanya tidak menonjolkan diri bisa menjadi berani, yang pemalu menjadi percaya diri, yang pemalas menjadi giat, yang tidak sabar dan banyak gerak menjadi hati-hati dan tenang.

if these hours be dark, as indeed in many ways they are, at least do not let us sit deedless, like fools and fine gentlemen, thinking the common toil not good enough for us, and beaten by the muddle; but rather let us work like good fellows trying by some dim candle-light to set our workshop ready against to-morrow's daylight...

Take pains. Be perfect.

His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them: and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Better wear out than rust out.

It has been said that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance'.

Success Should Never Breed Complacency

whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.

Let No One Fall Idle  

All work and no pray,makes jack a weak boy .But all pray and no work,makes jack a poor boy

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.