Quotes About Diligence

Do not be too hard on Mr. Cramer," Wolfe replied. "His job is a difficult and often thankless one. He constantly receives assaults from all sides. His superiors in the department demand arrests, the newspapers demand arrests, the public demands arrests. I agree that he is cantankerous, contentious, and often thickheaded. But he also is honest, hardworking, and fearless. The department would do well to have more men like him in their ranks.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

Despise The Free Lunch

If little labour, little are our gains; Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time." — Charles Dickens, in David Copperfield

Patient plodding produces durable results.

Not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. – Romans 12:11

I tried to (and still do) live by the words of Abraham Lincoln: "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.

Story is about thoroughness, not shortcuts.

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.

Leadership's a lot more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave.

Life favors the devoted.

Those who don't make time for exercise must eventually make time for illness.

Small, daily, seemingly insignificant improvements, when done consistently over time, yield staggering results

Find your series of practices, perform them with consistency. And then go out into this beautiful world of ours and shine.

As for the fall of the Spanish Empire, ironically, perhaps no monarchs in history were more conscientious, honest, or hardworking than Charles V and his son Philip II. Between them they carefully built the Spanish Empire and ruled it for more than eighty years. Nearly every day they rose early and worked diligently at administering this sprawling entity. Had they been wastrels or playboys, they might have done much less damage to the economies in their charge.

If you're going to do something, I believe, you should do it well. You should sweat over it and make sure it's strong and accurate and beautiful and you should be proud of it

Neatly dressed and well groomed, Rockefeller was the first to arrive at and the last to leave work each day.

Rockefeller seemed destined to succeed as much from his fastidious work habits as from innate intelligence.

Rockefeller also derived a glandular pleasure from work and never found it cheerless drudgery.

He hoarded his money, worked incessantly, and retained a lonely air.

Details. Evidence gathering. Surveillance. It's the basis of everything. You've got to settle down and watch long enough and hard enough to get what you need.

Laziness and complacency.

Smart people, working hard, paying attention, thinking laterally.