Quotes About Diligence

You've got to put the work in every week. You can't take anything for granted.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

I've never let my guard down by saying, 'I don't need to be hedged.'

There's a strong body of evidence that shows that the more diligent we are in ensuring that guns are in the appropriate hands, the safer our communities will be.

If you get into the habit of cutting corners, they start to add up.

The FBI is not in the habit of leaving loose ends. That's not what they do.

And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.

I always feel like the hammer's going down right around the corner, and I think that level of constant anxiety is what keeps us from getting too lazy.

But if you treat it courteously, brush it from time to time, and don't mess it up with mud or spill coffee on it, it should be fine.

Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. COLOSSIANS 3:23

comes from sturdy stock and knows how to work hard and take what comes.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Remember, work, well-done, does good to the man who did it. It makes him a better man

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Our work is never over.

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.