Quotes About Diligence

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

I've realized that I am a strict mom. I don't want to think that nothing wrong can happen with me.

When you do something, do it right the first time... When you're talking about hard-working, when you go out of your way to mop floors and strip them and do all those things, it's kind of like, 'Dang.'

Our cast and crew strive for this show after show hard as they can. It shows in the finished product.

I don't want to have anyone else to do my housework. I've always done it myself. I believe you should do it yourself. I feel very strongly about that.

Work is not optional for those able to do work, and that's most of us. There are to be no shirkers in the Lord's kingdom.

You just have to keep coming to work in order to be the best.

Do well what you do. And do it conscious that you ought to be leaders among men.

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

I have always put the same effort in all my films irrespective of their outcome.

I don't take my work ever for granted. I still work very hard on every song and try to outdo myself every time.

I don't wear the sash to bed. But I make sure it is always clean. I have it in two colors, black and gray. And I make sure it goes with my outfit.

The reward for good work is more work!

So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays.

To know God is a matter of diligence and discipline in the things of the soul. He has rigged it that way. That's the way you'll come to Him and that's what He honors. It takes diligence, discipline, and effort.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.

You have to watch them all the time,' she assured me darkly. 'Even if the spirit's willing, the flesh is weak!

if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

Whether we are orderlies or orchestra conductors, either we befriend our work-- seeing in it the opportunity for moral excellence and a continual outpouring of heavenly grace-- or we become its victim.

If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed! (Buck, 65)

They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.