Quotes About Diligence

son muchos los padres que dan por sentado que las buenas notas y las calificaciones elevadas son la mejor garantía y la clave para la felicidad futura. Pero se equivocan. Si quieres que tu hijo esté sano, sea rico y sea sabio, entonces tu prioridad no deberían ser los resultados relacionados con lo cognitivo, como las notas, sino la medida de su diligencia, con rasgos como la honestidad, la integridad y el autocontrol.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Los hombres geniales empiezan grandes obras, los hombres trabajadores las terminan (Leonardo Da Vinci)

Forgiveness is essential if we are to guard our hearts with all diligence.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

On the one hand, Puritans hinted that God would reward the diligent and godly with prosperity. On the other hand, they cautioned that wealth must not be an end unto itself lest carnal temptations overwhelm the ultimate purpose of human life: preparation for salvation in the next world.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

Without the least sense of rush or strain you've been working as fast as one of those extraordinary calculating boys, who turn up from time to time.

She had always worked as hard as she could, at everything she did, and she simply did not understand how anybody could do otherwise. How could they sit there, as they did, and stare into the space in front of their desks when they could be adding up figures or checking the drivers' returns?

Alexander McCall Smith

The alternative to discipline is disaster. VANCE HAVNER

These seem such minor matters, but it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.