Quotes About Diligence

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he never had fewer than seven jobs and at one point had thirteen.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

Realizar una cosa fácil no demanda ningún esfuerzo. Hay que practicar el bien y trabajar para merecer la dicha, y no se llega a ella a través de la especulación y la pereza. La pereza seduce, el trabajo satisface.

Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

French Braid reveals the gentle realities of family ties that constrict and those that fall apart altogether, while the daily hum of diligence and possibility reverberates in the background.

Today, a hack isn't something you want to be. A hack reverse-engineers all the work, barely getting by. The hack has no point of view, no assertions to be made. It's simply "what do you need?" and "how little do I have to charge to get this gig?" (or "how much can I get away with?").

The shelf number for the book would be inked in beside it, but each shelf contained about fifty books, so you had to hang there on the ladder and read every spine of every one until you came across yours. Let it be said that nothing was ever accomplished in haste at Iverson.

You will have to be on your guard, and when your guard slips, you must recover." My fencing master used to say something eerily similar to that. And then she'd add that making a recover was much more difficult than simply doing the thing right the first time.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.

diligently on their homework and making good progress

Never take your eyes off them," Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. "Didn't MacNeil ever tell you that?

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

They would work from dawn till dusk, studying and practicing weapons craft and battle tactics—although the latter were relatively simple in the Skandian world, usually consisting of a headlong charge in response to the command, "Let's get 'em!

Better to suspect something and find nothing than to suspect nothing and find something.

De ouderen mochten graag zeggen dat er tijdens het wachtlopen weinig te doen was en dat de jongere zeelieden heel goed waren in weinig doen.

Religion requires action, labour, diligence; for it does not consist in airy, empty notions and speculations of the head but in the exercise of the mind and heart. Habits must be exerted; grace, improved. Heaven (that is, all uphill) must be strived for and gotten, as it were, by force and victory.

Keep your head down. Avoid the limelight. Get on the right committees. Go to hearings. Do your homework. Build up a substantive portfolio. And never forget the care and feeding of the people who sent you here.