Quotes About Diligence

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

Clearly there was a need for some inspired and clever experimentation, and happily the age produced a young person with the diligence and aptitude to undertake it.

Boys normally attended the school for seven or eight years, beginning at the age of seven. The schoolday was long and characterized by an extreme devotion to tedium. Pupils sat on hard wooden benches from six in the morning to five or six in the evening, with only two short pauses for refreshment, six days a week.

Discipline is recognizing what has to be done, doing it as well as you can do it, and doing it that way all the time.

The one character trait I have found that successful writers have in common, over and over again, is the ability to consistently work hard.

Paranoia might be annoying, but a healthy dose of it served to keep you alive. No one ever got killed by being too vigilant.

Festina lente may well be his motto

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

But, to salve my conscience, I must feel the pain of work

One must be so careful these days.

a proud man who could do more than he is asked to do. It is not good for the spirit.

Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed.

I respect you heaps, lady knight. I'd've thrown myself off a bridge, getting this assignment. You, you're there with lists and plans. You listen to every flap-mouthed bumpkin who thinks he can do your task better, and you answer with a smile and thanks. Why, you've inspired me to be a blessing to my fellow bumpkin, just like you.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

Businessmen warned that idleness breeds mischief and-even worse-radicalism.

Receava, particularmente, a forma mais sutil da gratidão, que se torna carinho canino; não queria que a liberdade, a única roupa que caía bem na Maga, se perdesse numa feminilidade diligente.

I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.

My dad used to turn of the TV an scold me to study.

I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first…. No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Wackford tat nur wenige Dinge schnell, und sprechen gehörte nicht dazu. Er war fleißig, bemüht und stark wie ein junger Dockarbeiter, aber Geschwindigkeit war für ihn ein Fremdwort wie Frontispiz und Faksimile.