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Quotes About Diligence

I love thoroughness. I respect people that do a job well.
~ Micah Lexier
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
~ Confucius
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
~ Confucius
To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
~ William Shakespeare
It is the case, instead (and this is a genuine reversal of the presumption in question), that we directly and naturally perceive reality as personified, and then must work very diligently to strip that personification away, so that we can detect "objective reality.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
A responsible person decides to make a problem his or her problem, and then works diligently—even ambitiously—for its solution, with other people, in the most efficient manner possible (efficient, because there are other problems to solve, and efficiency allows for the conservation of resources that might then be devoted importantly elsewhere).
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Those who are power hungry—tyrannical and cruel, even psychopathic—desire control over others so that every selfish whim of hedonism can be immediately gratified; so that envy can destroy its target; so that resentment can find its expression. But good people are ambitious (and diligent, honest, and focused along with it) instead because they are possessed by the desire to solve genuine, serious problems.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
A responsible person decides to make a problem his or her problem, and then works diligently—even ambitiously—for its solution,
~ Jordan B. Peterson
If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.
~ Jordan Peterson
From my point of view it is immoral for a being not to make the most intense effort every instant of his life.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
~ Joseph Conrad
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
~ Joseph Joubert
One thing you learn in police work is how to wait. Now you, you hate to wait. You'd make coffee nervous.
~ Joseph Kanon
Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crowfood.
~ Erin Hunter
chi vuol occuparsi di orologi deve avere Tempo ma non si deve annoiare
~ Ernst Junger
A FORMIGA Sete palmos, sete metros, anda a formiga por dia (sete palmos a correr, sete metros devagar), só para lamber o mel que lentamente escorria quer da boca quer do pão quer dos dedos do Miguel.
~ Eugénio de Andrade
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
~ Eugene Delacroix
Much effort, much prosperity.
~ Euripides
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow
~ Evan Esar
I definitely want to show that I'm going to be a reliable guy to put in the work.
~ Brandon Ingram
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
~ Xi Jinping
Think nothing done while aught remains to do.
~ Samuel Rogers
I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
~ Rafael dos Anjos