Quotes About Diligence

Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas, And yet he semed bisier that he was.

Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily.

He did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness, I would say "Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!"

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.

He is idle that might be better employed.

If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

The harder you try, the better the impression you set on the people around you.

My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.

When you are yourself involved in a project so much, you have to take one step at a time and make sure it turns out good.

If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.