Quotes About Diligence

We often rush when we should plod, forgetting that we usually accomplish more by persisting than by hurrying.

he never bothered to look them up.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

I've seen your father bury many a man, but I never saw him take this kind of pains." Newt

Canine homeland security at work.

if you intend to try and work, not to sit under the Tree of Idleness.

Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.

Masume works hard and he's very thoughtful. He likes hardships, so he's very useful.

Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires greater stock of religious merit than he would gain by the repetition of 10,000 prayers. Zen Zoroaster

Death should take more care with his paperwork.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.

If you ask me to cut down a tree I'll spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.

Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?

Public services are never better performed, than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.