Quotes About Diligence

Be yourself and work your tail off at whatever your job is,and people will notice.

I'm just going to come in each year and work my tail off and try to be the best I can be.

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.

I take my responsibilities very seriously.

You just have to know how to put in the work, know how to be patient, how to take advantage of every opportunity that you get.

I have some afflictions, like diabetes 2, but I take care. I sleep well.

My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.

Captain Yoo Si Jin is most similar to me. He takes his job very seriously, but in his free time, he's playful.

If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.

I can control my effort, how hard I work and taking advantage of the opportunities.

Character is more important than talent.

My talent lies in my hard work.

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.

I want to mention one other reason why we shy away from commitment. It is, very simply, the fear that we will not be able to fulfill our covenant. We may have made commitments in the past that we were not able to fulfill—perhaps a marriage vow or a promise to our children. Or it could have been something far more simple—a pledge to be diligent in devotional reading, for example.

True success in medicine is not easy. It requires will, attention to detail, and creativity. But the lesson I took from India was that it is possible anywhere and by anyone. I can imagine few places with more difficult conditions. Yet astonishing success could be found ... what I saw was: Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

It won't be easy, given that some courts have ruled that even sleeping through your client's trial is not enough to qualify.

There is no problem that cannot be solved. —NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!