Quotes About Diligence

Work as unto the Lord, remembering that He is the one who promotes you.

sabiduría es el arte diligentemente adquirido para vivir con destreza.

15 percent of success could be attributed to training and education, while 85 percent was attributed to attitude, perseverance, diligence, and vision.

Only if you mix knowledge with attitude, character, perseverance, vision, diligence, and extreme levels of work will your college degree produce for you.

In studying successful people, the author discovered that 15 percent of success could be attributed to training and education, while 85 percent was attributed to attitude, perseverance, diligence, and vision.

Excuse me, sir, I ain't no politician! I prefer to be honest and work for my livin'!

Invention is often more about endurance and patient observation than brainwaves.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue Chang - Lost Horizon (1933)

Maybe one reason that the work seems dull is because you're not bringing it up before God in prayer,

Nihil est melius quam vita diligentissima.(Nothing is better than a most diligent life.)

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Blessed are the horny hands of toil!

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

You've gut to git up airlyEf you want to take in God.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee." – Benjamin Franklin

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead freed his mind from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

The young man never seemed to know what idleness was," marveled Cutler, "and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some English classic or some abstruse book on natural history in his hands.

Roosevelt seemed to feel," Harrison remarked, "that everything ought to be done before sundown.

Indeed, "the leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow that can be done to-day." The key to success, he insisted, is "work, work, work.

the leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow that can be done to-day." The key to success, he insisted, is "work, work, work.

I do admire efficiency,' said Marthe. 'But how tedious it can be in excess.

Hughes often said that men fail to make progress in learning not for lack of time or ability but for lack of hard work. Unlike so many university students today, who stay up late partying, eating pizza, and playing video games, Watts and his friends did not fritter away the hours. They did, however, stay up late. Far into the night, Watts went on reading and annotating what he read.

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.