Quotes About Diligence

The habit of rendering more service than is expected

DOING A THING WELL NEVER IS TROUBLE!

if you need to be continuously on the watch, doesn't that cause fatigue?

and lack of vigilance on the part of the bank.

Remain sober and remember to watch out).

Your revenue depends on your continuous efforts more than on the quality of your decisions.

A workhorse, not a show horse

Era adrede; les recordaba que, aunque tuvieran los puestos humanos más importantes del mundo, nunca debían sentirse demasiado cómodos ni dormirse en los laureles.

So be careful when you bend over.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment

I dared not make a mistake…

The price of fitness is eternal vigilance, and the greatest spur to diligence is the daily log.

I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

I try to let the people I do business with off the court know that I'm serious about my business off the court. So I try not to mix the two.

I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.

For puritans of whatever faith, God is in the detail.

I also knew that no one had told then to stay late--they were doing so of their own volition. This type of diligence and drive is not atypical in filmmaking--it's actually commonplace.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

To fear God simply means to take God seriously, as opposed to taking God casually.

It was no surprise that her sewing was so uneven, for to make even stiches the seamstress herself had to be steady. Abigail tended to hunch over her patchwork, her fingers and thread a snarl, and sew a few stiches before abandoning it to look down the road towards the houses near the general store, or to get up for a drink of water.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.