Quotes About Diligence

I think that coming to work every day and what we try and do and accomplish, there's a seriousness to it.

I try to value every day, every training session, every game.

When I was setting up my own business in my early 20s I'd get up early and work every hour I could stay awake.

Geordies get up every day, they go to work, they put a shift in.

I'm a shining example of what happens if you're willing to work hard.

Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.

I do things right. No shortcuts.

There are people who will take shortcuts, and if you decide to take a shortcut, it usually backfires, so I'm proud to say I'm not a shortcut taker.

That's a really important legacy for me: to work hard and be kind to other human beings.

I just try to get the most out of every day and be prepared for anything.

I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off.

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

If he was diligent in his studies, insistent on acquiring knowledge, and devoted to mercy and grace, he could become not a poor and obscure farmer but a philosopher, a saint, a hero, or a wise, good, great man.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence," he told one of his daughters.24 Time spent at study was never wasted. "Knowledge," Jefferson said, "indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

The best defense against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

Du moment que l'on arrête de lire, on s'engage sur la voie de la paresse intellectuelle.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

Give me six minutes to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.