Quotes About Diligence

With any character I do, I do my due diligence with research.

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

I've got 12 reserves in my riding and have always been very available and worked very diligently on a few files. I've been out any time there is major events. So I've always had an open door policy with the chiefs and individuals on- and off-reserve.

The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most.

Every department from the director to the art takes their time to set up, similarly as an actor it is your responsibility to take your time. Never be in a rush.

I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first. What's important is the work. That's the game I have to suit up for. That's the field on which I have to leave everything I've got.

All I know how to do is work.

Work—day-in, day-out exertion and concentration—produces progress and order. That's a law of the universe.

People get careless when they're feeling safe.

It wasn't about finding the right answer; it was about patience and diligence. I surrendered to the process, ascribing the same importance to this work as to anything else I did.

But if you work and care and are watchful, as we have tried to be for you, then in the long run the worse will never, ever, triumph over the better.

It's not getting it right the first time--it's learning to do it right and then not getting lazy.

[The law] is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage.

Only thing I remember from school is to keep my eyes on my own paper.

La pereza es la madre de todos los vicios.

Be strong. Be diligent. Be conscientious. There is never anything to be gained by taking the easy road.

It was amazing how slowly one could work when one really put one's mind to it.

I will call out the lazy, the idle, and the ignorant. I will support the hard working, the industrious, and the law.

I never insisted that I was a good student.

When done with heart, commitment, and integrity, every job is equally important.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

There is nothing more operative than sedulity and diligence. A man would wonder at the mighty things which have been done by degrees and gentle augmentations. Diligence and moderation are the best steps whereby to climb to any excellence, nay, it is rare that there is any other other way.

Keep thy heart (or imagination) with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." (Prov. 4:23.)

a man who has a head and hands is seldom left long in a state of destitution.