Quotes About Diligence

A man with keen preservation

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.

If it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully. ROMANS 12:8

The man who rolls up his shirt sleeves is rarely in danger of losing his shirt.

I try to be professional; I try to be on time. I don't take anything I have for granted. That's my definition of success.

I'm too professional, too much of a perfectionist to take my eye off the ball.

I think the thing that's impressed me the most has been the fantastic professionalism of the officials in the Senate.

I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately.

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

I should be known for my work and not how I promote myself and what I do.

I'm not trying to promote myself. I'm just happy to go about my business.

We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.

If you're gonna do a job, do it properly.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

I'm the sort of person who has to learn something properly before I show anyone.

I am not opposed to video gambling as long as it is properly regulated and regulators are diligent about keeping bad actors from having any involvement with the industry.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

Lisez, et ne rêvez pas. Plongez-vous dans de longues études. Il n'y a de continuellement bon que l'habitude d'un travail entêté. Il s'en dégage un opium qui engourdit l'âme… Read and do not dream. The only thing that is continually good is the habit of stubborn work. It emits an opium that numbs the soul…

On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.