Quotes About Diligence

Meanwhile, if these hours be dark 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 candlelight to set our workshop ready against to-morrow's daylight. William Morris.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Plod diligently. Plodding generally goes in the same direction, while pottering doesn't.

So my responsibility is, so to speak, whatever is in front of me, there on my workbench or desk or counter. I should do a first-rate job with that, and other things will fall into place. And as they fall into place, it will not be the impersonal doing of Adam Smith's invisible hand. Every blessing a Christian ever receives is from a pierced hand.

I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

Even if jobless we should never be effortless!

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Responsibility is doing ones work neatly, without the instruction and monitoring by anyone.

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.

The three foundations of learning: Seeing much; studying much; and suffering much.

Try to avoid getting involved with somebody who's gonna need killing before it's over. It may seem to you that that narrows the field somewhat, but be diligent.

He gave it to the use of the Industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it)." People

John Adams told him. "And if you do not rise . . . to the head of your country, it will be owing to your own Laziness, Slovenliness, and Obstinancy." 65

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.