Quotes About Diligence

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

Be at your best at all times.

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not.

but, as we know, even when the silver wears away and you're left with copper, if you attend to it every day it has a gleam all its own.

Whatever you are, be a good one. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN

If you don't take care of your house, let support beams rot, the roof fall in, and the very foundation crack and crumble, you can't blame some storm that comes along for knocking the whole thing down. You've got to take responsibility for your part in it all.

idleness is the root of all evil.

The men who think of superannuation at sixty are those whose lives have been idle, not they who have really buckled themselves to work. It is my opinion that nothing seasons the mind for endurance like hard work. Port wine should perhaps be added.

One seems inclined to think sometimes that any fool might do an honest business.  But fraud requires a man to be alive and wide awake at every turn!

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

All of life is maintenance, for heaven's sake. That's the pleasant part. Taking care of things.

One-act [plays] are not strikingly remunerative, but, on the other hand, the veriest dullard could not spend more than a week in writing one.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, he remarked with a smile. It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, he remarked with a smile.

genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains

She had become so dully habituated to married life that in her full matronliness she was as sexless as an anemic nun. She was a good woman, a kind woman, a diligent woman, but no one, save perhaps Tinka her ten-year-old, was at all interested in her or entirely aware that she was alive.