Quotes About Assiduity

#1. Assiduity, it means sit down until you do it. Commit yourself to your work and study.

Lucas Remmerswaal

#2. In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

Adam Smith

#3. The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

Max Horkheimer

#4. I have written this because it may have escaped the notice of many who have admired her [Marie Tempest] brilliant performances that they are due not only to her natural gifts ... but to patience, assiduity, industry and discipline. Without these it is impossible to excel in any of the arts.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.

Gordon Lish

#6. How free from all vanity he carried himself in matter of honour and dignity, (as they are esteemed his laboriousness and assiduity, his readiness to hear any man, that had aught to say tending to any common good: how generally and impartially he would give every man his due; his skill and knowledge,

Marcus Aurelius

#7. If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

John Dalton

#8. The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

Noah Webster

#9. My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

Ernest Istook

#10. Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

William Henry Hudson

#11. I felt like a character in a science fiction story, trapped in someone else's body, articulating someone else's words. To be frank, I bored even myself. And by the time I was thirty-six, my course was set, my die stamped, I knew I would never change.

Philip Palmer

#12. Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

Laura Dave

#13. Well, Mr Ward. Given how much sex we have, I'd say you're the majority shareholder of power in this relationship.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#14. Beware the man of the single book

Bertrand Russell

#15. What you do behind someone's back you do in front of God's eyes.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.

Ludwig Von Mises