Quotes About Diligence

Everything is work on the farm.

Very few people get into that category of being a good grafter.

I'm up at the crack of dawn. If I'm filming, then I'll wake at 5 A.M. so that I can get on set and made up before the cameras start rolling.

Just in any job, if you want to get ahead, take shorter lunch breaks, be happy to stay later, do the work, and finish it off well.

You've got to be the first one in the door and last one out.

The White House is a serious place, with serious people, doing serious work. If you're not careful, it can grind you down.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.

People who look for the first time through a microscope say, 'Now I see this, and then I see that,' and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, 'Why take so much trouble,' and, 'What good is it?'

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

My tendency is to be quiet and to stay focused and in character. Not the entire time, but certainly to stay focused while I'm on set.

If President Obama were to enroll in an American government class, the professor would mark him absent on most days. In the first 100 days of his second term, the president has failed to show up to class, take notes and complete the daunting task of rising to the challenges facing him.

I work like a dog when I have to, but when I'm not working, I get terribly lazy and could sit around all day.

We need to be diligent in our neighborhoods, in America to keep an eye out for wherever there might be some kind of a terrorist cell that is festering that could potentially blow up.

Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.

A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom.

Pekerja keraslah yang akan memenangkan hari ini. Jadi, jangan kikir mengeluarkan daya! Kerahkanlah ketabahan, karena begitu mudah untuk menyerah, Begitu sulit untuk mempertahankan kegigihan.

Sharpening your knife is never a waste of time.

It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it.

It is worse than useless to do things halfway, Bee. For then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get less done, it is better to do the whole task the first time.