Quotes About Diligence

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease.

Effort is its own reward.

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

Life without work is unworthy of being lived.

Who comes first, grinds first.

Everything is interesting if you know how to work on it.

We have to work with consistency, with discipline, step by step, no matter how things are going around us, and be careful not to make a mistake, because we pay for our mistakes.

Someone said once, "If you want to fill a dozen milk bottles, you must not stand back and spray them with a hose. You can get them wet, but you won't fill them. You must take them one by one.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

A private sector employer has always own profitability merely in mind, so obviously s/he will find own nature compatibility with only that kind of employees who have selfish mentality rather than with those workforce who do job diligently with punctuality and sincerity .

An intelligent believes in rolling up the sleeves and pulling up the socks whereas a sycophant is always ready to going down on knees and taking off the pant.

He who has a pretty looking wife has to keep a hawk eye also on the watchman of his house.

He who has been denied any increment or promotion in spite of his spending three years or more in the private organization, is most likely to be not indulging in any such activities like office politics,idle gossiping, back- biting colleagues, buttering seniors/boss and might be just doing work diligently and sincerely in the interest of the company.

Professionals keep their words and the people who are duffers keep only obsequious to let own foolish word be always heard.

We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.