Quotes About Diligence

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

I hate spending too much time idling around.

I'm not afraid of hard work. I like it! It's the other bit - the not working - I find more problematic. If I'm not busy, I just get antsy. I've been this way since I was a child. Sitting still is like torture for me.

the most slavish thing was to "luxuriate," whereas the most royal thing was to "labor.

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Trifles make perfections, but perfection is itself no trifle.

Simply because one has spent one's life at a work does not mean that the work must be correct, or of use.

To work, Sissy. To. Work. Not to start shit. Not to race. Not to gamble. And definitely not to get arrested or turn all of Japan against you. Remember, I'm not stationed right around the corner like before.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

A Christian must not while away time. Get engaged in something

I have no patience for wasting time.

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding patient persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle thought by thought fact by fact.

If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective it is the doing the little things the common duties a little better and better.

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

I read my books with diligence, and mounting skill, and gathering certainty. I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life.

Let them imitate and imitate - and learn and learn. ...who has not seen a young painter in a museum intently copying a Vermeer or a van Gogh, and believing himself on the way to learning something valuable? Emotional freedom, the integrity and special quality of one's work - are not first things, but final things. Only the patient and diligent, as well as the inspired, get there.

My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. But the latter obtained my undivided attention: wealth was

He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.