Quotes About Diligence

I think most of us would agree that people who have, say, little formal schooling but labor honestly and diligently to help feed, clothe, and educate their families are deserving of greater respect - and help, if necessary - than many people who are superficially more successful.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

Exams are not very hard. People find them hard because they don't work - it's just a matter of labour. Once you actually start doing it, it's like cracking eggs. You don't need to be smart. As everything is in life, it's about concentration.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

For best results, apply regularly.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

My mother used to tell me that the best defense for anything is doing a good job" -Robin

The dragons of twentieth-century life are ignorance, incompetence, slackness and disloyalty, she said.

Parents stress the importance of learning to their children and carefully monitor their progress. Not infrequently, those children are well ahead of their Christian schoolmates in terms of intellectual curiosity and persistent diligence.

Since he brought an exacting and grim seriousness to his tasks in the best of times, he found this same demeanor effective in the worst of times.

Do everything quickly and well.

And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

In those early years, I worked endlessly to research every detail that might affect the deal I wanted to pursue. I do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but I can move quickly when opportunities open because I've done the background work first—which no one else sees. I prepare thoroughly. Then, when the green flag is dropped, I can stay ahead of competitors.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

Accuracy and diligence are much more necessary to a Lawyer, than great comprehension of mind, or brilliancy of talents," Daniel Webster argued, for the lawyer's "business is to refine, define, and split hairs…. A man can never gallop over the fields of Law on Pegasus, nor fly across them on the wing of oratory. If he would stand on terra firma he must descend."25

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.

James Buchanan's niece: "He often worked just for work's sake.

Most of the work of carrying on the world is necessarily hard and dull and routine in character: and for it the world needs us men and women who can steel our souls against weariness and monotony, and press forward with good cheer.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit.

We—and here I include myself—need to be careful lest, in working hard and standing firm against wickedness, we (like the church in Ephesus) forsake our first love and fall from a great height.

Belief in God's sovereignty coupled with his promises to reward those who diligently seek him (Heb. 11:6) provides even more powerful incentive to pray.