Bernard Meltzer Quotes

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

Work first, and then rest.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Time lost is time lost. It’s gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best.

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell.

The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.