Quotes About Diligence

I'll probably not be the best actor in Hollywood, and I am okay with that. But I will be the hardest working one, and I'll be the one that people like to work with because I show up on time, and I don't complain.

I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

I just know one thing that hard work is the key to success and I believe in this.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

I believe that being honest to oneself and one's work is all that matters.

I know only one way: work hard.

If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

The moral to this story is that consistent effort yields predictable success.

for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today.

What I would say to people right now is that you can't count on anything that you don't do yourself," Jim said. "If your hand don't put it there, and you don't provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can't count on anybody else to do it for you.

permanent state of high alert.

Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time.

Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and that no Case can be so low, so despicable, or so empty of Prospect, but that an unwearied Industry will go a great way to deliver us from it, will in time raise the meanest Creature to appear again in the World, and give him a new Case for his Life.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Work alone is noble.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight, intelligence, and industry in trying to arrive at the nearest values to truth. I hope, of course, to argue convincingly that having done this, we have an inescapable duty to seek to inculcate others with these values.

Cash is filling up the holes he bored in the top of it. He is trimming out plugs for them, one at a time, the wood wet and hard to work. He could cut up a tin can and hide the holes and nobody wouldn't know the difference. Wouldn't mind, anyway. I have seen him spend a hour trimming out a wedge like it was glass he was working, when he could have reached around and picked up a dozen sticks and drove them into the joint and made it do.

Ahora que tenían algo que hacer, trabajaron con entusiasmo.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

Who among you would teach your boys that ease, that peace is to be the first consideration in your eyes—to be the ultimate goal after which they strive? You men of Chicago have made this city great, you men of Illinois have done your share, and more than your share, in making America great, because you neither preach nor practice such a doctrine. You work yourselves, and you bring up your sons to work.

That is perhaps the greatest insight that the ancient Roman Stoics championed for humanity. There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. And our attitudes are up to us.